Theresa Quill

As Map & Spatial Data Librarian, Theresa Quill supports research, teaching, and learning in the areas of maps, spatial data, and Geography. She offers discipline-agnostic support for these areas through research consultations and instructional sessions for students, faculty, and staff. She manages collections related to these areas, including the Herman B Wells Library Map Collection which is available by appointment to all.

Theresa's research interests include spatial literacy, critical cartography, spatial humanities, and teaching with map collections. A focus of Theresa's work is making maps and spatial data open and discoverable. She has managed several map digitization projects, including the Russian Military Topographic Maps, for which IU Libraries won an "Excellence in GIS" award in 2019. She also serves on the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Information Network and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. Theresa teaches a course on Map and GIS Librarianship in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (Z604) each summer.

Theresa is committed to increasing diversity and representation in the print map collection, which contains a small but growing collection of maps produced by indigenous cartographers, female cartographers, and other under-represented voices in cartography that may represent alternative views of a place.

Previous to joining the Libraries, Theresa served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria from 2008-2010. She earned her Master of Library Science degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 2013, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the University of Georgia (2007).  

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