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Terms of the Award

The biennial 'Imago Mundi Prize' is awarded for the Imago Mundi article judged to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline.

The next Prize will be awarded in 2009 for the best article to have been published in the 2007 and 2008 issues (volumes 59 and 60). The winner will receive $1000 and will automatically qualify for a J.B. Harley Travel Award to the subsequent International Conference on the History of Cartography. The winner will also receive a certificate, which, if they are able to attend, will be presented to them at that conference.

Full length articles will be eligible for the Prize, but not short articles, since it is only full length articles that are automatically subjected to the (anonymous) refereeing process before acceptance for publication. Directors of Imago Mundi Ltd (who will take it in turns to serve on the panel of judges) will not be eligible.

Award Winners

2007 winner
Dr George Tolias (Institute for Neohellenic Research, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens) for his article 'Nikolaos Sophianos's Totius Graeciae Descriptio: The Resources, Diffusion and Function of a Sixteenth-Century Antiquarian Map of Greece', Imago Mundi, 58, no. 2 (2006), 150-182.

2005 winner
Dr Zur Shalev (PhD Princeton University, 2004), a Visiting Research Scholar, Modern History Faculty, Oxford University, for his article 'Sacred Geography, Antiquarianism and Visual Erudition: Benito Arias Montano and the Maps in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible', Imago Mundi, 55 (2003), 56-80.

NB. We are most grateful to the publishers of Imago Mundi Routledge/Taylor & Francis/Informa for making the texts of these article available free of charge.

Original announcement (2003)

It is with great pleasure that we announce the new, biennial 'Imago Mundi Prize'. This will be awarded for the Imago Mundi article judged to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline.

The Prize will be awarded for the first time in 2005 for the best article to have been published in the 2003 and 2004 issues (volume 55 and the two-part volume 56). The winner will receive $1000 and will automatically qualify for a J.B. Harley Travel Award to the next International Conference on the History of Cartography (Budapest, July 2005). The winner will also receive a certificate, which, if they are able to attend, will be presented to them at the conference.

His fellow Directors wish to give warm thanks to Kenneth Nebenzahl for his generous sponsorship of this Prize.

Board of Directors, Imago Mundi Ltd.

Tony Campbell
Chairman, Imago Mundi Ltd
July 2003