Student Spotlight: LauraLee Brott wins The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography

Ph.D. Candidate LauraLee Brott has won The Walter W. Ristow Prize for Academic Achievement in the History of Cartography for her paper, “Meet Your Maker: The Tournai Maps of Asia and Palestine.” Her paper explores how the Tournai Maps materially and textually relate to their manuscript setting. The honor includes a cash prize, and publication in the next issue of The Portolan: The Journal of the Washington Map Society.