Professional experience

• Associate Professor and GIS Program Director in the Central Washington University Department of Geography (2016-present)
• Part-time Instructor in the Penn State University Department of Geography (2009-2018)
• GIS Software Product Engineer at Esri (2005-2013)

Education

• Ph.D. in Geography (2016) – Penn State University
  • Dissertation: A geovisual analysis of social influence in OpenStreetMap construction
• Master of Geographic Information Systems (2009) – Penn State University
• Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Systems (2005) – Brigham Young University

Peer-reviewed journal publications

• Quinn, S., & Condon, D. (2022). Inclusion of Latino-oriented local businesses in popular online maps: An empirical study in the Inland Northwest of the United States. The Journal of Community Informatics, 18(2), 84-114. [PDF link to article]
• Quinn, S. (2022). What can we see from the road? Applications of a cumulative viewshed analysis on a US state highway network. Geographica Helvetica, 77(2), 165-178. [HTML link to article]
• Quinn, S. (2020). Geographies of Empty Spaces on Print and Digital Reference Maps: A Study of Washington State. Cartographic Perspectives, (95), 24-21. [HTML link to article]
• Robinson, A. C., Anderson, C. L., & Quinn, S. (2020). Evaluating geovisualization for spatial learning analytics. International Journal of Cartography, 6(3), 331-349.
• Quinn, S. (2019). Free and open source GIS in South America: political inroads and local advocacy. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(3), 464-483. [PDF (Author’s accepted version)]
• Quinn, S., & Alvarez León, L. (2019). Every single street? Rethinking full coverage across street‐level imagery platforms. Transactions in GIS, 23(6), 1251-1272. [PDF (Author’s accepted version)]
• Alvarez León, L., & Quinn, S. (2018). The value of crowdsourced street-level imagery: examining the shifting property regimes of OpenStreetCam and Mapillary. GeoJournal, 84(2), 395-414.
• Robinson, A. C. & Quinn, S. (2018). A brute force method for spatially-enhanced multivariate facet analysis. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 69, 29-38.
• Quinn, S. and Tucker, D. (2017). How geopolitical conflict shapes the mass-produced online map. First Monday, 22(11). [HTML link to article]
• Quinn, S., and MacEachren, A. (2017). A geovisual analytics exploration of the OpenStreetMap crowd. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 45(2), 140-155. [PDF (Author’s accepted version)]
• Quinn, S. (2017). Using small cities to understand the crowd behind OpenStreetMap, GeoJournal, 82(3), 455-473. [HTML link to article]
• Quinn, S. (2016). A Geolinguistic Approach for Comprehending Local Influence in OpenStreetMap. Cartographica, 51(2), 67–83. [PDF (Author’s accepted version)]
• Quinn, S., and Yapa, L. (2016). OpenStreetMap and food security: A case study in the city of Philadelphia, The Professional Geographer, 68(2), 271-280.
• Nelson, J., Quinn, S., Swedberg, B., Chu, W., and MacEachren, A. (2015). Geovisual Analytics Approach to Exploring Public Political Discourse in Twitter, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(1), 337-366. [HTML link to article]
• Quinn, S., and Gahegan, M. (2010). A predictive model for frequently viewed tiles in a web map. Transactions in GIS, 14(2), 193–216.

Honors and awards

• GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year, Individual Category, awarded by OSGeo (2015) for work developing Open Web Mapping course

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