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
Martin Coulter, Undergraduate, University of Aberdeen, Scotland:
John Wood's Plan of the Cities of 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 Honorable 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, 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 Oronce 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
2009 Ristow Prize Winner
Matthew D. Mingus, PhD Candidate, University of Florida
Postwar Cartography and the Struggle to Build (and Destroy) the World Picture: A Few Case Studies
2009 Honorable Mention
John A. Legrid, MS in Geography Candidate, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Republic to Empire: The Use of Cartographic Imagery in Augustan Rome
2009 Honorable Mention
William Peake, University of Adelaide, Australia
How Historical Events Influenced the Map Content of the Atlases Published by Johnston and Stanford and the Events Determining These Decisions
2010 Ristow Prize Winner
Megan Barford, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
From “Terra Australis Incognita” to Whales and Shipping Routes: Cartographic Representations of the South Pacific, 1760-1860
2010 Honorable Mention
Emma Thompson, Skidmore College
The Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus: Classifying Wonder in the Natural World of Sixteenth Century Europe
2011 Ristow Prize Winner
Kevin E. Sheehan, PhD Candidate, Durham University (England)
Utility and Aesthetic: The Function and Subjectivity of Two Fifteenth Century Portolan Charts
2011 Honorable Mention
Julie McDougall, Doctoral Student, University of Edinburgh
British School Atlases: Influence on Style and Map Content, c. 1870 – c. 1930
2012 Ristow Prize Winner
Thomas A. Weiss, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas, Arlington
MapAnalyst and Geographic Information Systems: Keys to Unlocking New Paths of Research in the History of Cartography
2012 Honorable Mention
Erin Maglaque, D.Phil Candidate, Oxford University
Writing Sentences with Toponyms: Archiving and Narrating the Colonial in the Cornaro Atlas