Drew Heiderscheidt

Instructional Consultant | Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning, Indiana University Bloomington (IUB)

PhD Candidate | Department of Geography, IUB

Education

PhD in Geography, IUB

• Minor: Digital Arts & Humanities
• Dissertation: Foreigners, Vagrants, Outside Agitators: Geographically Imagining Criminals & Collective Action in Colorado, 1890s-1910s [working title]
• Committee: Drs. Ishan Ashutosh (Supervisor), Patricia Basile, Rachel Plotnick (IUB Media School), Kalani Craig (Minor Supervisor), Rasul Mowatt (North Carolina State University), & Micol Seigel (IUB Depts. of History & American Studies)

M.A. in Geography, IUB

• Master’s Thesis: Contact Tracing (Apps), Geographic Governance, & Imaginative Geographies: Producing Findability during COVID-19.

Graduate Certificate (GSci) in Geographic Information Science, University of Northern Colorado (UNCO)

• Concentrations: Web GIS; Spatial Database Development & Management; Geospatial Programming

B.A. in History & Environmental and Sustainability Studies (Summa Cum Laude), UNCO

Research Interests

Teaching & Pedagogical Experience

• See Teaching.

Technical & GIS Experience

Publications

• See Research.

Presentations

• Heiderscheidt, Drew. Mapping Solidarity: The Western Federation of Miners, Colorado Labor Wars, & Potential of Historical GIS. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, 28 March 2025. Detroit, MI. Panel Presentation
• Heiderscheidt, Drew. Stretching Archival Collections with GIS: A Case Study from Colorado. Common Grounds, 8 March 2025 — Indiana University, Bloomington, IN — Panel Presentation.
• Heiderscheidt, Drew, Gordon, Eve, Clark, Timothy, & Rivera, Isaac. Centennial Struggles: Producing a Critical Historical GIS of Colorado’s Front Range in the 20th Century. Common Grounds, 13 April 2024. IUB, Bloomington, IN — Panel Presentation.
• Heiderscheidt, Drew, Henderson, Jane, Montange, Leah, & Smyth, Araby. GIS, policing, Esri and us: Abolition pedagogy with the Beyond Esri Resource Guide. Dimensions of Political Ecology, 23-24 February 2024. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Panel Presentation.
• Heiderscheidt, Drew. Mapping Solidarity: The Western Federation of Miners, GIS, and Visualizing Social Struggle in Colorado’s Front Range in the Early 20th Century. IU Libraries GIS Day, 15 November 2023. IUB, Bloomington, IN. Lightning Talk
• Heiderscheidt, Drew, & Basile, Patricia. Integrating Abolition Geography with Radical Pedagogy. Making Abolition in Geography - Forum II, 17 September 2023. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN. Workshop Presentation.
• Heiderscheidt, Drew. Policing, Punishment, Property, Control: A Brief History of Policing and the Prison Industrial Complex in Colorado’s Front Range, 1850s-Present. 2022 Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities/HASTAC Symposium, 22 April 2022. IUB, Bloomington, IN. Presentation.

Grants & Fellowships

External

2024

• IHG Research Grant ($2,000) – Institute of Human Geography
  • With Isaac Rivera
• Digital Project Accelerator – Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (University of Toronto)

2023

• Right to the Discipline Grant (£10,000.00/~$12,225) – Antipode
  • Individually allocated $3,000 as a member of the Making Abolition in Geography Collective.
  • PI’s for this grant are Jane Henderson (Dartmouth College), Leah Montange (University of Toronto), and Araby Smyth (York University).
  • My role in this grant is to help create a spatial database visualizing the contracts of Esri with police departments around the U.S. and Canada based on FOIA requests submitted by Leah Montange in 2023.

Internal

2025

• Dissertation Completion Grant ($25,000 + benefits) – Indiana University Graduate School
  • Declined due to accepting a position as Instructional Consultant at IUB’s Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning
• Graduate Student Teaching Award ($1,000) – Dept. of Geography, IUB

2023

• Graduate Student Research Grant ($1,931.50) – Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society
• Grant-in-Aid ($1,000) – University Graduate School, IUB
• Graduate Student Research Grant ($1,000) – Dept. of Geography, IUB
• Summer Incubator Fellowship ($3,000) – IDAH, IUB

2022-2023

• Graduate Student Fellow, Kovener Teaching Fellows Program (~$1,200) – College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (see also Teaching Experience)

2022

• Yolanda Treviño Service Award – Graduate & Professional Student Government, IUB

2021-2022

• Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Fellowship ($500) – IDAH, and HASTAC Foundation
  • Developed a prototype story map with StoryMapJS titled “Policing, Punishment, Property, Control: A Brief History of Policing and the Prison Industrial Complex in Colorado’s Front Range, 1850s-Present.”

2021

• William R. Black Leadership Memorial Fellowship ($750) – Dept. of Geography

2020

• Summer Research Fellowship ($3,000) – Dept. of Geography

Service

University

2021

• GIS Day Organizer
  • In collaboration with the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) and IU Libraries.
  • Key member of the organizing committee for 2021’s GIS Day at IUB and helped develop the theme “Mapping the Public Sphere: Citizen Science, Participatory History, and Public Engagement with the Academy”.
  • Responsible for inviting, planning, and introducing Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking’s keynote presentation “Constellations: The Limits and Inspirations of Mapping Queer Cities of Survival & Desire.”.

2020

• GIS Day Organizer
  • Key member of the organizing committee for 2020’s GIS Day with the theme “Geographies of Disruption: Mapping to Make Sense of 2020’s Sociopolitical Upheaval”.
  • Organized and moderated Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley’s keynote presentation, “Sensing Place: Habit Change in the Mobile, Connected Present”.

Department

2021-2022

• Geography Department Colloquium Committee
  • Helped organize colloquium speakers with Drs. Natasha MacBean and Kurt Waldman

2020-2022

• Geography Graduate Student Organization Leadership Roles
  • Jan.-May 2020: Served as Vice President
  • May 2020 – Dec. 2020: Served as President
  • Dec. 2020 – May 2022: Served as Secretary

2020-2021

• Geography in Practice Symposium (GPS) Organizer
  • Scheduled, advertised, and fundraised for Dr. Tim Cresswell’s colloquium talk, “Unruly Mobilities and the New Normal: Turbulence in Covid Times” (March 19, 2021).

2019-2022

• Social Media Manager
  • Maintained the IU Geography Department’s Twitter & Facebook pages.

2019

• Geography in Practice Symposium Organizer
  • Assisted organizing Jason W. Moore’s colloquium presentation “For an Ecology of Hope: Climate, Power, and Justice in the Modern World.”

Editorial & Advisory Boards

• Associate Editor (Geography & GIS) — Leisure Sciences (2023-Present)

Selected Skills

Memberships

• American Association of Geographers. (2020-Present.)
• American Historical Association (2024-Present)
• Indiana Geographic Information Council. (2020-Present.)
• Rocky Mountain URISA – Regional Chapter of URISA International. (2018-Present.)
• Western History Association. (2024-Present.)

Drew Heiderscheidt

Drew Heiderscheidt is a geographer and teacher based at Indiana University, Bloomington's Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning

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