 UTA Archivist wins award
UTA Libraries Archivist Gary Spurr, who completed his master’s degree in history in spring 2002,
has won the 2002 Ristow Prize with a paper he wrote for Dr. Dennis Reinhartz. The prize was announced
in September and presented on October 5 during the meeting of the Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History
of Cartography. The following is the press release sent by John W. Docktor of the Washington Map
Society:
Each year the Washington Map Society offers the Ristow Prize for cartographic history and
map librarianship in honor of Walter W. Ristow, one of the nation's premier map librarians and
cartographic authors. Dr. Ristow was for many years head of the Geography and Map Division at
the Library of Congress and was founding president of the Society.
The first place winner for 2002 is Gary Spurr who is a graduate student at the University of Texas
at Arlington. His prize winning paper is entitled Maps of Conquest: Indian and Spanish Maps of
Mesoamerica. Mr. Spurr's winning entry will be published in a future issue of The Portolan. He received
a cash award of $500 and membership in the Washington Map Society for the coming year.
For further information about the Washington Map Society or the Ristow Prize see
http://www.washmap.org/ or contact Bert Johnson, 2101 Huntington Avenue, Alexandria
VA 22303-1547, USA., or email mandraki@erols.com.
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