The Walter W. Ristow
Prize Results
1994 Ristow Prize Winner
John
Hamer, Graduate Student,
Worlds
Apart: Norman Mappaemundi in
1994
Brendan Ford,
MS Geography Candidate,
The History of Modem Mapping in
1994
Aaron B. Retish, Undergraduate,
A Foreign Perception of
1995 Ristow Prize Winner
Stephanie
Anne Roper, PhD Candidate,
Image
Is Everything: English Maps of Colonial
1995
Brian Coulter, Undergraduate,
John Wood's Plan of the Cities,
1996 Ristow Prize Winner
Stephen
C. Pinson, PhD Candidate,
Repressed Mimesis: Jomard and the
‘Monuments de la Geographie’
1996 Honorable Mention
David Hays,
Graduate Student,
Antiquarian Cartography
and the Origins of the Palazzo
Barberini in Seventeenth Century
1997 Ristow Prize Winner
Philip
J. Stern, Undergraduate,
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
1997 Honorable Mention
Stephen Tseng-hsin Chang, PhD/MPh Candidate,
The Portuguese Maritime
Discoveries Along the
1998 Ristow Prize Winner
Kenneth
Mitchell, Graduate Student,
Juan
de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's Mapa Geografico
de America Meridional
1998 Honorable Mention
Lucy Chester,
PhD Candidate,
Mapping Imperial
Expansion: Colonial Cartography in
1998 Honorable Mention
Lisa Davis-Allen, PhD Candidate,
The National Palette:
Painting and Map-Coloring in the
1998 Honorable Mention
Jennifer Turnham, PhD Candidate,
Mapping the
1999 Ristow Prize Winner
Neil
Safier, PhD Candidate,
Mapping
Myths: The Cartographic Boundaries between Science
and Speculation on La
Condamine's Amazon, 1743-44
1999 Honorable Mention
Kenneth Mitchell, Graduate Student,
Mapping the French
Empire: Jean Boisseau's 1643 'Description
de la Nowelle
1999 Honorable Mention
Jilly Traganou, Post-Doctorate Scholar,
Geographic Representations
of the Tokaio from
2000 - No prize awarded
2001 Ristow Prize Winner
Dimitris
K. Loupis, PhD Candidate, Bilkent University,
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,
From That Last Point,
The Line Is Less Exact: The Problem of Cartography Prior to the
2001 Honorable Mention
Tine Ningal,
MSc Candidate, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences
(
A Case Study of Transition
From Mental Map to Web-Based Mapping in PapuaNew
2002 Ristow Prize Winner
Gary
Spurr, MA Candidate,
Maps of Conquest: Indian and Spanish Maps of
2002 Honorable Mention
Rushika February Hage, PhD Candidate,
The
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,
Contesting Spatial Order: Merchant Geography in
Late-Ming
2003 Honorable Mention
Mitia Frumin,
PhD,
Russian Navy Mapping Activities in the Eastern and
Southern
2004 Ristow Prize Winner
Veronica Della Dora, PhD
candidate in Geography, University of California,
Mapping
Science and Myth on the
Renaissance and Enlightenment Visions of
2005 Ristow Prize Winner
Ruth E. Watson,
The
Decorated Hearts of Orance Fine: The 1531 Double Cordiform Map of the World
2005 Honorable Mention
Mark Fink,
Charting the Enlightenment: An Interpretation of
Edmond Halley’s 1728 Chart of the Atlantick Ocean
2005 Honorable Mention
Robert Sherwood,
Humboldt’s Politics of Mapping: Alexander Humboldt’s
Essay and General Chart of the Kingdom of New Spain
2006 Ristow Prize Winner
Gavin Hollis,
“Give
me the map there”: King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in Early Modern
2006 Honorable Mention
Jinny Gunston,
The Cowdray Engraving of the Siege of
2006 Honorable Mention
Avan Stallard,
Navigating Tasman’s 1642 Voyage of Exploration:
Cartographic Instruments and Navigational Decisions
2007 Ristow Prize Winner
Wesley J. Reisser, MA
Candidate,
Mapping
the Peace: The American Inquiry and the
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,
Mapping
Identity: Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the “Relaciones
Geográficas”
2008 Honorable Mention
Alexander Hidalgo, PhD Candidate,
The Space between Us: Indigenous Mapmakers in
Colonial
2008 Honorable Mention
Jason W. Smith, PhD Candidate,
Lighting the Path of the Mariner: Hydrography,
Empire, and the
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
2009 Honorable Mention
William Peake,
How Historical Events Influenced the Map Content of
the Atlases Published by Johnston and Stanford and the Events Determining These
Decisions