UMN Buildings – Named for Men/Women

While attending the Big Ten Academic Alliance Digital Humanities Summit back in April, I was made aware of this very cool set of maps from the University of Iowa Libraries (created for Women’s History Month) highlighting buildings on their campus named for men/women (and the disparity between those numbers).

Inspired by the maps they made, I took a shapefile of the buildings on the UMN campus (from our Campus History web app), did quite a bit of research/googling and made my own version for the University of Minnesota…

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