LIBRARY MAP PRIZE EDITION 2021
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.
1st Prize
Author: Logan M. Howard
Essay Title: Heat Stress in Urban Environments: A Case Study of Heat Vulnerability in New Haven, CT
College: Ezra Stiles
Honorable Mention
Author: Nora M. Heaphy
Essay Title: Climate Niche Evolution in C4+CAM Portulaca and Closely Related C3+CAM Lineages
College: Morse
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
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
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
1st Prize
Author: Steven M. Roets
Essay Title: Choose or Chosen? An Interactive Exploration of Congressional District Boundaries
College: Pierson
1st Prize
Author: Rebecca Beilinson
Essay Title: Species Distribution Modeling of North American Odonates
College: Trumbull