The Library Map Prize is awarded to Yale College senior for the best use of maps in a senior essay or its equivalent. The prize is an award of $500.
The deadline for the Library Map Prize 2024 is Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 11:59 p.m. EDT. Contact the Library Map Prize team with any questions you may have.
Submit your essay for consideration.
The Library Map Prize is one of three senior essay prizes awarded by Yale University Library to honor outstanding undergraduate research and encourage the use of library collections. See all the Yale Library prizes.
Essays from 2024
“So, where are you really from?” A Digital Humanities Repository Mapping "Home, Identity, and Belonging" Within the Intimacies of the Fuzhounese Experience, Lisa Dong
First Prize
Rebirth: Investigating Industrial Gentrification and Land Use Policy in Chicago's West Loop, Nick McGowan
First Prize
Essays from 2023
The Myth of Solidarity: The Formalization of Segregation and Externalization of Class Through the Estate System in Cali, Colombia, Juanita Castaneda Norena
First Prize
Harnessing Citizen Science and Collections Data for Invasive Plant Surveillance, Adin L. Ring
Honorable Mention
Essays from 2022
An Assessment of Geographic and Taxonomic Biases in Research on Climate Change-Related Range Shifts, Evan J. Parker
Honorable Mention
An Index of Community Priorities to Inform Local Governance in New Haven, Max E. Teirstein
Honorable Mention
Constructing Colma, Ethan Treiman
First Prize
Essays from 2021
Climate Niche Evolution in C4+CAM Portulaca and Closely Related C3+CAM Lineages, Nora M. Heaphy
Honorable Mention
Heat Stress in Urban Environments: A Case Study of Heat Vulnerability in New Haven, CT, Logan M. Howard
First Prize
Essays from 2020
Railroad Ties: Tracks to the White Earth and Red Lake Ojibwe Reservations, 1860s-1910s, Heidi Katter
First Prize
Social Agglomeration Forces and the City, Peter A. Luff
Honorable Mention
The Public and the Personal: Mapping the NYC Subway System as an Urban Memoryscape, Soledad O. Tejada
First Prize
Essays from 2019
Ranging and Behavior of Black and Gold Howler Monkeys in Formosa, Argentina, Claire Rossi de Leon
First Prize
Essays from 2018
The Changing Fate of Thailand's Elephants, But a Future Worth Fighting For: The Interplay of Culture and Ecology for Conservation, Madeline Zimmerman
First Prize
Essays from 2017
Choose or Chosen? An Interactive Exploration of Congressional District Boundaries, Steven M. Roets
First Prize
Essays from 2016
Species Distribution Modeling of North American Odonates, Rebecca Beilinson
First Prize
Essays from 2006
The City of Oil & Water: The Rise and Fall of an American Landscape, Jeffrey B. Goodman
This work was nominated for the Yale Library Map Prize in 2006. However, no review and selection process was carried out in 2006 and, therefore, no prizes were awarded that year. In reply to an inquiry from the author, the essay was reviewed by Yale Library’s Map Prize 2021 judges. These reviewers are pleased to recognize the excellence of the essay and underlying scholarship, including its extensive and creative use of maps, and to publish it as a 2006 Map Prize Submission of Merit.
Chasing Thucydides: Re-Imagining the Battle of Pylos (425BC), Patrick McGill
This work was nominated for the Yale Library Map Prize in 2006. However, no review and selection process was carried out in 2006 and, therefore, no prizes were awarded that year. In reply to an inquiry from the author, the essay was reviewed by Yale Library’s Map Prize 2021 judges. These reviewers are pleased to recognize the excellence of the essay and underlying scholarship, including its extensive and creative use of maps, and to publish it as a 2006 Map Prize Submission of Merit.