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Subject: Annual Walter W. Ristow Prize Competition Announcement -
Washington Map Society
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:51:30 -0400
From: Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
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"Maps-l" <[log in to unmask]>
On behalf of the Washington Map Society I am pleased to announce the
Annual Dr. Walter W. Ristow Prize Competetion for academic papers
related to the History of Cartography. The winning author will receive
$1,000.00
(yes, that's correct, $1,000.00!) and be published in an upcoming issue
of The Portolan, The Journal of the Washington Map Society.
This is a unique publishing opportunity for undergraduate and graduate
students and we encourage others to share this information with
students, academic departments, library patrons, or anyone else who may
be interested. (I will be happy to send complete informational packet
via e-mail to any interested parties if contacted offlist)
For additional information see
http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/washmap.htm and
http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/ristow.html
Ed Redmond
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Washington, DC
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THE 2009 DR. WALTER W. RISTOW PRIZE
FOR AN ACADEMIC PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY
The prize, offered since 1994, recognizes academic achievement in the
History of Cartography and honors the legacy of the late Dr. Walter W.
Ristow, former chief of the Geography & Map Division, Library of
Congress, and co-founder and first president of the Washington Map
Society.
THE AWARD - $1000 cash award, a one-year membership in the Washington
Map Society, and publication of the paper in The Portolan - Journal of
the Washington Map Society. Honorable Mention may be awarded for a
paper or papers at the judges’ discretion.
WHO MAY APPLY - Full or part-time undergraduate, graduate, and first
year post-doctoral students attending accredited U. S. or foreign
colleges and universities.
ENTRY CRITERIA - Research papers related to cartographic history and
completed in fulfillment of course work requirements. The text, in
English, and documented in a style selected by the author, may not
exceed 7,500 words. Papers entered in the competition may have been
previously presented at academic symposia. They may have been entered
in other competitions. They must not, however, have been published,
selected for publication, or in contention for publication at the time
of entry into the Ristow Prize competition. This criterion is not
circumvented by a change of title and/or wording to what is essentially
the same article that has appeared in another publication. Serious
copyright implications make this necessary.
FORMAT - Four unbound copies with a title page and cover sheet
including the entrant’s name, address, telephone number and e-mail
address, and department and academic status.
JUDGING CRITERIA - Three broad criteria: (1) importance of research
(e.g., originality, sources used), (2) quality of research (e.g.,
accuracy, source reliability), (3) writing quality (e.g., clarity,
organization, command of cartographic terms).
DEADLINE - Postmarked not later than 1 June 2009 and mailed to Marianne
M. McKee, Ristow Prize Chair, 1718 Elmsmere Avenue, Richmond, VA 23227,
USA. Complete and comprehensive information is available on the
Washington Map Society’s web site: www.washmap.org. For questions,
contact [log in to unmask]
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PAST WiNNERS of the DR. WALTER W. RISTOW PRIZE include those listed
below. Each authos has their paper published in the Portolan
WINNERS (1994-2008)
2008 - Diantha Steinhilper, Florida State University – Tallahassee
“Mapping Identity: Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the
Relaciones Geográficas”
2007 - Wesley J. Reisser, George Washington University – Washington,
D.C.
“Mapping the Peace: The American Inquiry and the Paris Peace
Conference, 1918-1919”
2006 - Gavin Hollis, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
“‘Give me the map there’: King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in
Early Modern England”
2005 - Ruth Watson, Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia
“The Decorated Hearts of Orance Fine: The 1531 Double Cordiform Map
of the World”
2004 - Veronica Della Dora, University of California – Los Angeles
“Mapping Science and Myth on the Holy Mountain:
Renaissance and Enlightenment Visions of Mount Athos”
2003 - Ben Sheesley, University of Wisconsin – Madison
“A Humboldtian Science Framework for William Whewell’s Maps of the
Oceanic Tides”
2002 - Gary Spurr, University of Texas – Arlington
“Maps of Conquest: Indian and Spanish Maps of Mesoamerica”
2001 - Dimitris Loupis, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
“Piri Reis’s Book on Navigation as a Geography Handbook:
Ottoman Efforts to Produce an Atlas During the Reign of Sultan Mehmed
IV (1648-1687)”
1999 - Neil Safier, Johns Hopkins University -- Baltimore
“Mapping Myths:
The Cartographic Boundaries between Science and Speculation
on La Condamine’s Amazon, 1743-44”
1998 - Kenneth Mitchell, University of Minnesota
“Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla’s Mapa Geográfico de America
Meridional”
1997 - Phillip Stern, Wesleyan University
“’Not Withstanding the Efforts of the Ancients, and the Wishes of
the Moderns’:
Antiquity, Authority, and Cartography in the Origins of the Modern
British Exploration of Africa”
1996 - Stephen Pinson, Harvard University
“Repressed Mimesis: Jomard and the ‘Monuments de la
Géographie’”
1995 - Stephanie Abbot Roper, University of Kansas
“Image is Everything:
“English Maps of Colonial North America as Promotional Tools,
1530-1660”
1994 - John Hammer, University of Michigan
“Worlds Apart: Norman Mappaemundi in England and Sicily”
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