Mark Monmonier (born February 2, 1943) is a geographer with a long track record of publications that have been influential to the discipline. In 2023, the American Association of Geographers awarded Monmonier a lifetime achievement award, with prominent mention of his publication track record, specifically stating, "Monmonier’s works are timeless and have transformed how people see, analyze, and interact with maps." Monmonier stands out from other academics in that he published several books aimed at the general population. His most famous book, How to Lie with Maps has been referred to as the "bible for cartographers" by Steven Bernard of the Financial Times and "the closest thing to a religious text we have in cartography" in Spatial Literacy in Public Health: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Collaborations. His publication Maximum-Difference Barriers : An Alternative Numerical Regiodization Method lead to what is now referred to as the "Monmonier Algorithm."
Books
Single author books
TitleDatePublisherIdentifierCitation(s)Notes Maps, Distortion, and Meaning 1977 Association of American Geographers Computer-assisted Cartography: Principles and Prospects 1982 Prentice-Hall Technological Transition in Cartography 1985 University of Wisconsin Press Maps with the News: the Development of American Journalistic Cartography 1989 University of Chicago Press How to Lie with Maps 1991, 1996, 2018 University of Chicago Press Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences 1993 University of Chicago Press Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy 1995 Henry Holt Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America 1997 University of Chicago Press Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather 1999 University of Chicago Press Bushmanders & Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections 2001 University of Chicago Press Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy 2002 University of Chicago Press Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: a Social History of the Mercator Projection 2004 University of Chicago Press From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame 2006 University of Chicago Press Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change 2008 University of Chicago Press No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control 2010 University of Chicago Press Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows 2012 Syracuse University Press Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir 2014, 2016 Syracuse, NY: Bar Scale Press Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History 2017 Palgrave Macmillan Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography 2019 Esri Press, Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address 2022 University Of Iowa Press
Co-authored books and edited volumes
TitleCo-author(s)DatePublisherIdentifierCitation(s)Notes The Study of Population: Elements, Patterns, Processes George A. Schnell 1983 Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies George A. Schnell 1983 Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co Map Appreciation George A. Schnell 1988 Prentice-Hall Volume Six of the History of Cartography:Cartography in the Twentieth Century 2015 University of Chicago Press A Directory of Cartographic Inventors: Clever People Awarded a US Patent for a Map-Related Device or Method Adrienne Atterberry, Kayla Fermin, Gabrielle Marzolf, Madeline Hamlin 2018 Bar Scale Press
Book chapters and encyclopedia entries
Chapter TitleBook titleCo-author(s)DatePublisherIdentifierCitation(s)Notes The Three R's of Gis-Based Site Selection: Representation, Resistance, and Ridicule Policy issues in modern Cartography 1998 Elsevier Thematic Maps in Geography International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 2001 Elsevier Chapter 6 - The Internet, Cartographic Surveillance, and Locational Privacy Maps and the Internet 2003 Wiley-Blackwell Chapter 26 Cartography Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century Robert B McMaster 2004 Oxford University Press Cartography The Social Science Encyclopedia 2004 Taylor and Francis Chapter 2 POMP and circumstance: Plain old map products in a cybercartographic world Modern Cartography Series 2005 Elsevier Geolocation and Locational Privacy: The “Inside” Story on Geospatial Tracking Privacy and Technologies of Identity 2006 Springer High-Resolution Coastal Elevation Data: The Key to Planning for Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security 2008 Springer Web Cartography and the Dissemination of Cartographic Information about Coastal Inundation and Sea Level Rise International perspectives on maps and the Internet 2008 Springer A Century of Cartographic Change The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation 2010 Wiley-Blackwell Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation 2010 Wiley-Blackwell Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Reflection Essay: Strategies for the Visualization of Geographic Time-Series Data Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Maps that Say "No!": The Rise of Prohibitive Cartography Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom 2013 Routledge Innovation and Inertia in Atmospheric and Census Cartography in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America Visible Numbers 2016 Routledge Cartography International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Hunches and hopes The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography 2017 Routledge ‘Change-of-State’ in the History of Cartography Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion 2020 Amsterdam University Press
Peer reviewed Articles
Single author articles