Undergraduate cartography draws from personal experience and rigorous academic exploration. Since 2013, students in Dr. Kären Wigen’s introductory seminar History 95: Maps in the Modern World have created original maps of Stanford. These maps are then compiled into a counter-atlas and preserved by Stanford Libraries.

This exhibit features a selection from nearly 80 student maps produced over more than a decade, showcasing the diverse technical, artistic, intellectual contributions of undergraduates to our campus. We are showing these maps with permission from their creators. Maps are both personal and political, realistic and idealistic, raw and polished. Find these student works, and other forms of counter-mapping, at Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections, the Stanford Geospatial Center, and the David Rumsey Map Center.

This exhibit was organized by Zoe Dilles with help from Kristina Larsen, Pauline Lewis, Alma Parada, Karen Rodriguez, Kristen Valenti-McKeen, and Kären Wigen.

This exhibit is free and open to the public. Learn more about visiting Stanford Libraries on our website.

IMAGE: Main Quad Buildering by Sara Boyers (class of 2026).