Map Your Research.
Cartography & GIS services for scholars, authors, cultural institutions, & map lovers.
Portfolios
Latest Maps
The inner solar system, with heliospheric current, comet, magnetic fields, and space/time curvature grid. Commissioned by Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University). Made with Blender.
Collage of maps for the Oxford Handbook of Resilience in Climate History
Annexations and revanchism by fascist and authoritarian regimes in interwar Europe. Commissioned by Dr. J. Luke Ryder (US Holocaust Memorial Museum).
National Laboratory Infrastructure map of the Energy Sciences Network (ESNet6). Commissioned by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
A grayscale topography/bathymetry basemap of Oceania, as its coastline stood approximately 30,000 years ago. Commissioned by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Commissioned wall map of a property in New Mexico. Produced with lidar data from the University of Mexico. Mapped with QGIS, Adobe Illustrator, and Blender.
Little Ice Infographic. Commissioned by Dagomar Degroot and John McNeill (Georgetown University)
Reviews
"Geoffrey is a skilled researcher and a gifted cartographer. In a matter of days, he produced the finest maps I've ever commissioned - maps that revealed the complexity and geography of Arctic climate change in brilliant detail."
— Dagomar Degroot, author of The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720.
"I loved working with Geoff. Next to his clean and stylish maps, I'd have to say my favorite part was his process. He is a listener, detail-oriented, approachable, and serious about historical sources, design, and how best to convey visual information."
— Mike Amezcua, author of Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification.
“It was a pleasure to work with Geoff Wallace. Geoff brings a historian's sensibility to the crafting of complex historical maps, even as he also does beautiful work. Geoff carried out meticulous research. He understood the difficulties of mapping contested lands with ambiguous and contested claims and developed solutions. I wholeheartedly recommend his work and would work with him again in a heartbeat.”
-Elizabeth Elbourne, author of Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions and the Contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853
"As editor of an interdisciplinary journal, I especially appreciated Wallace's attention to representing historical processes in his maps. They are dynamic and yet uncluttered, a huge cut above the typical academic maps one finds 'illustrating' books and articles. These maps add significant value to academic publications. In addition to his imaginative approach to scholarly maps, Wallace is also extremely flexible and responsive. First-rate!"
-Kris Lane, Editor of Colonial Latin American Review and author of Potosí: The Silver City that Changed the World.
“We hired Geoff Wallace to create a portfolio of maps for our Oxford University Press book on Caribbean environmental history and it was a fortunate choice. Geoff readily understood what we needed the maps to communicate, drew them promptly using the specifications laid down by the publisher, and was extremely accommodating throughout the back-and-forth with us that came between first drafts and final versions. The resulting maps do their jobs admirably and are beautiful as well.”
-J. R. McNeill, 2019 AHA president and author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914