Mark Monmonier

Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is author of twenty books, including How to Lie with Maps, and was editor of Cartograph in the Twentieth Century, the million-word encyclopedia published as Volume Six in the History of Cartography series. His awards include the American Geographical Society's O. M. Miller Medal (2001), the German Cartographic Society's Mercator Medal (2009), and induction into URISA's (Urban and Regional Information Systems) GIS Hall of Fame (2016).