The Walter W. Ristow Prize Results

 

1994 Ristow Prize Winner

 John Hamer, Graduate Student, University of Michigan

 Worlds Apart: Norman Mappaemundi in England and Sicily

 

1994 Second Place

Brendan Ford, MS Geography Candidate, George Mason University

The History of Modem Mapping in Fairfax County, Virginia

 

1994 Third Place

Aaron B. Retish, Undergraduate, University of Wisconsin

A Foreign Perception of Russia: An Analysis of Anthony Jenkinson's Map of Russia, Muscovy, and Tartaria

 

 

1995 Ristow Prize Winner

 Stephanie Anne Roper, PhD Candidate, University of Kansas

 Image Is Everything: English Maps of Colonial North America as Promotional Tools, 1530-1660

 

1995 Second Place

Brian Coulter, Undergraduate, University of Aberdeen, Scotland:

John Wood's Plan of the Cities, Aberdeen, 1828

 

 

1996 Ristow Prize Winner

 Stephen C. Pinson, PhD Candidate, Harvard University

Repressed Mimesis: Jomard and the ‘Monuments de la Geographie’

 

1996 Honorable Mention

David Hays, Graduate Student, Yale University

Antiquarian Cartography and the Origins of the Palazzo Barberini in Seventeenth Century Rome

 

 

1997 Ristow Prize Winner

 Philip J. Stern, Undergraduate, Wesleyan University

 Notwithstanding the Efforts of the Ancients and the Wishes of the Moderns:  The Authority of

Cartography in the Origins of the Modern British Exploration of Africa

 

1997 Honorable Mention

Stephen Tseng-hsin Chang, PhD/MPh Candidate, University of London

The Portuguese Maritime Discoveries Along the South East Coast of China in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century: A Cartographic View, 1513-1550

 

 

1998 Ristow Prize Winner

 Kenneth Mitchell, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota

 Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's Mapa Geografico  de America Meridional

 

1998 HonorabJe Mention

Lucy Chester, PhD Candidate, Yale University

Mapping Imperial Expansion: Colonial Cartography in North America and South Asia

 

1998 Honorable Mention

Lisa Davis-Allen, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Arlington

The National Palette: Painting and Map-Coloring in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

 

1998 Honorable Mention

Jennifer Turnham, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota

Mapping the New World: Nicolas Sanson's 'Amerique Septentrionale' and French Cartography in the Seventeenth Century

 

 

1999 Ristow Prize Winner

 Neil Safier, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University

 Mapping Myths: The Cartographic Boundaries between Science

 and Speculation on La Condamine's Amazon, 1743-44

 

1999 Honorable Mention

Kenneth Mitchell, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota

Mapping the French Empire: Jean Boisseau's 1643 'Description de la Nowelle France'  (Note: Mr. Mitchell won the Ristow Prize in 1998.)

 

1999 Honorable Mention

Jilly Traganou, Post-Doctorate Scholar, Tokyo Keizai University

Geographic Representations of the Tokaio from Edo to Meiji Japan

 

 

2000 - No prize awarded

 

 

2001 Ristow Prize Winner

 Dimitris K. Loupis, PhD Candidate, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

 Piri Reis' Book on Navigation and a Geography Handbook:

Ottoman Efforts to Produce an Atlas during the Reign of Sultan Mehmed IV (1648­-1687)

 

2001 Honorable Mention

Michael Kimaid, PhD Candidate, Bowling Green University

From That Last Point, The Line Is Less Exact: The Problem of Cartography Prior to the Louisiana Purchase

 

2001 Honorable Mention

Tine Ningal, MSc Candidate, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), the Netherlands

A Case Study of Transition From Mental Map to Web-Based Mapping in Papua­New Guinea for Cartographic Education

 

 

2002 Ristow Prize Winner

 Gary Spurr, MA Candidate, University of Texas at Arlington

 Maps of Conquest: Indian and Spanish Maps of MesoAmerica

 

2002 Honorable Mention

Rushika February Hage, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis

The Island Book of Henricus Martellus: Charting Lands Known and Unknown

 

 

2003 Ristow Prize Winner

Ben Sheesley, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A Humboltian Science Framework for William Whewell's Maps of the Oceanic Tides

 

2003 Honorable Mention

Yongtao Du, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contesting Spatial Order: Merchant Geography in Late-Ming China

 

2003 Honorable Mention

Mitia Frumin, PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Russian Navy Mapping Activities in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (Late 18th Century)

 

 

2004 Ristow Prize Winner

Veronica Della Dora, PhD candidate in Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Mapping Science and Myth on the Holy Mountain:

 Renaissance and Enlightenment Visions of Mount Athos

 

 

2005 Ristow Prize Winner

Ruth E. Watson, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

The Decorated Hearts of Orance Fine: The 1531 Double Cordiform Map of the World

 

2005 Honorable Mention

Mark Fink, University of Texas at Arlington

Charting the Enlightenment: An Interpretation of Edmond Halley’s 1728 Chart of the Atlantick Ocean

 

2005 Honorable Mention

Robert Sherwood, University of Texas at Arlington

Humboldt’s Politics of Mapping: Alexander Humboldt’s Essay and General Chart of the Kingdom of New Spain

 

 

2006 Ristow Prize Winner

Gavin Hollis, University of Michigan

“Give me the map there”: King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in Early Modern England

 

2006 Honorable Mention

Jinny Gunston, University of Portsmouth, England

The Cowdray Engraving of the Siege of Boulogne, 1544. Analysis of a sixteenth century artifact. Combining historic documentation with modern technology

 

2006 Honorable Mention

Avan Stallard, University of Queensland, Australia

Navigating Tasman’s 1642 Voyage of Exploration: Cartographic Instruments and Navigational Decisions

 

 

2007 Ristow Prize Winner

Wesley J. Reisser, MA Candidate, George Washington University

Mapping the Peace: The American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919

 

2007 Honorable Mention

Laura Ambrose, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan

Mapping "Travail" in Seventeenth-Century English Travel Guides

 

 

2008 Ristow Prize Winner

Diantha Steinhilper, PhD Candidate, Florida State University

Mapping Identity: Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the “Relaciones Geográficas”

 

2008 Honorable Mention

Alexander Hidalgo, PhD Candidate, University of Arizona

The Space between Us: Indigenous Mapmakers in Colonial Oaxaca

 

2008 Honorable Mention

Jason W. Smith, PhD Candidate, Temple University

Lighting the Path of the Mariner: Hydrography, Empire, and the U.S. Navy, 1898-1905