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The Walter W. Ristow Prize Winners & Honorable Mentions1994 Ristow Prize WinnerJohn Hamer, Graduate Student, University of Michigan: Worlds Apart: Norman Mappaemundi in England and Sicily
1995 Ristow Prize WinnerStephanie Abbot Roper, PhD Candidate, University of Kansas Image Is Everything: English Maps of Colonial North America as Promotional Tools, 1530-1660
1996 Ristow Prize WinnerStephen C. Pinson, PhD Candidate, Harvard University Repressed Mimesis: Jomard and the ‘Monuments de la Geographie’
1997 Ristow Prize WinnerPhilip 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
1998 Ristow Prize WinnerKenneth Mitchell, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's Mapa Geografico de America Meridional
1999 Ristow Prize WinnerNeil Safier, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University Mapping Myths: The Cartographic Boundaries between Science and Speculation on La Condamine's Amazon, 1743-44
2000 - No prize awarded
2001 Ristow Prize WinnerDimitris 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)
2002 Ristow Prize WinnerGary Spurr, MA Candidate, University of Texas at Arlington Maps of Conquest: Indian and Spanish Maps of MesoAmerica
2003 Ristow Prize WinnerBen Sheesley, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison A Humboltian Science Framework for William Whewell's Maps of the Oceanic Tides
2004 Ristow Prize WinnerVeronica 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 WinnerRuth E. Watson, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia The Decorated Hearts of Orance Fine: The 1531 Double Cordiform Map of the World
2006 Ristow Prize WinnerGavin Hollis, University of Michigan “Give me the map there”: ‘King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in Early Modern England’
2007 Ristow Prize WinnerWesley J. Reisser, University of California, Los Angeles Mapping the Peace: The American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919
2008 Ristow Prize WinnerDiantha Steinhilper, PhD Candidate, Florida State University Mapping Identity: Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the “Relaciones Geográficas”
2009 Ristow Prize WinnerMatthew D. Mingus, PhD Candidate, University of Florida Postwar Cartography and the Struggle to Build (and Destroy) the World Picture: A Few Case Studies
2010 Ristow Prize WinnerMegan Barford, undergraduate in Modern History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK From Terra Australis Incognita to Whales and Shipping Routes: Cartographic Representations of the South Pacific, 1760-1860
2011 Ristow Prize WinnerKevin Sheehan, PhD. candidate at Durham University in England, Utility and Aesthetic: The Function and Subjectivity of Two Fifteenth Century Portolan Charts
2012 Ristow Prize WinnerThomas 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
2013 Ristow Prize WinnerJustin T. Dellinger, a PhD. Student, University of Texas, Arlington La Balise: A transimperial focal point
2014 Ristow Prize WinnerDavid Fedman, a PhD. candidate at Stanford University Mapping Armageddon: The Cartography of Ruin in Occupied Japan
2015 Ristow Prize – no prize awarded
2016 Ristow Prize WinnerAna del Cid Mendoza, PhD Architect Professor of Urban History at E.T.S. Arquitectura, Universidad de Grenada (Spain) Orientalist Cartographies: Granada and the Alhambra
2017 Ristow Prize WinnerLauren Bouchard Killingsworth an undergraduate studying History and Biology at Stanford University Mapping Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Oxford
2018 Ristow Prize WinnerRheagan Eric Martin PhD. candidate at the University of Michigan Jacopo de' Barbari and the Limits of Knowledge
2019 Ristow Prize WinnerAndrew J. Rhodes M.A. with Highest Distinction, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island The Geographical President: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Used Maps to Make and Communicate Strategy
2020 Ristow Prize WinnerEmily Boak M.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada From the Hilltops: The British Mapping of Afghanistan, 1839-1919
2021 Ristow Prize WinnerLauraLee Brott PhD Candidate in Medieval Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Meet Your Maker: The Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine
No Prize Awarded  2023 Ristow Prize Winner
Luis A. Robles Macías PhD Candidate in History, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Polar Hemispheres: The Overlooked Alternative to Nautical Planispheres in Renaissance Iberia |
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