Drew Heiderscheidt

Drew Heiderscheidt

Graduate Student

Education

2018: Bachelor of Arts in History, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, University of Northern Colorado

2019: Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science, University of Northern Colorado

2021: Master of Arts in Geography, Indiana University

About Drew Heiderscheidt

Drew Heiderscheidt is a critical historical GIScientist who studies the relationship between collective action and criminalization in Colorado's Front Range during the 20th century. His dissertation focuses on the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), a radical industrial union, and the ways that it both engaged in place-based labor organizing and was criminalized by an alliance of politicians, corporations, and news media during the late 19th c. to early 20th c. Methodologically, Drew synthesizes archival research and qualitative GIS methods to unearth how geographical imaginations were developed in order to materially and discursively suppress the WFM's radicalism.

Primary advisor

Ishan Ashutosh