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Library Map Prize

 

LIBRARY MAP PRIZE EDITION 2021

Previous Prize Winners

2020

1st Prize
Author: Heidi Katter
Essay Title: Railroad Ties: Tracks to the White Earth and Red Lake Ojibwe Reservations, 1860s-1910s
College: Silliman

 

1st Prize
Author: Soledad O. Tejada
Essay Title: The Public and the Personal: Mapping the NYC Subway System as an Urban Memoryscape
College: Davenport

 

Honorable Mention 
Author: Peter A. Luff
Essay Title: Social Agglomeration Forces and the City
College: Jonathan Edwards

 

2019

1st Prize
Author: Claire Rossi de Leon
Essay Title: Ranging and Behavior of Black and Gold Howler Monkeys in Formosa, Argentina​
College: Pierson
 

Honorable Mention 
Author: Amanda Taheri
Essay Title: Settler Colonialism as a Structure: Interpreting Historic Moroccan Actions in Western Sahara
College: Brandford

 

2018

1st Prize
Author: Liliane M. Lindsay
Essay Title: Indonesia’s Burning Issue: Why Deforestation Continues to Decimate the Nation Despite Decades of Environmental Policy
College: Saybrook

1st Prize
Author: Madeline Zimmerman
Essay Title: The Changing Fate of Thailand’s Elephants, But a Future Worth Fighting For: The Interplay of Culture and Ecology for Conservation
College: Davenport

 

2017

1st Prize
Author: Steven M. Roets 
Essay Title: Choose or Chosen? An Interactive Exploration of Congressional District Boundaries
College: Pierson

 

2016

1st Prize
Author: Rebecca Beilinson 
Essay Title: Species Distribution Modeling of North American Odonates
College: Trumbull

About the Library Map Prize

The Library Map Prize is awarded to a Yale College senior for the best use of maps in a senior essay or its equivalent. The prize is an award of $500.

Guidelines and Submissions

Senior essays submitted for consideration for the Library Map Prize must be supported by one or various maps. If you have questions about these requirements, please e-mail us at mapprize@yale.edu. 

Seniors or their faculty advisors may submit the essays. The winning student must agree to grant the library a non-exclusive right to post the essay on EliScholar. To submit, go to the EliScholar's Library Map Prize website.

The deadline for the Library Map Prize 2021 is Thursday, May 13, 2021, 11:59 pm EDT. Essays submitted after the deadline will not be considered. ​