Previously serving as Librarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning at the Harvard Map Collection, David Weimer arrives at the Newberry in the dual role of Curator of Maps and Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography.
Weimer has devoted his professional and scholarly work to guiding people into the history of maps and highlighting the interdisciplinary potential of maps. In 2020, he co-curated an exhibition on the tactile reading of texts that earned him the Biennial Disability History Association’s Public Disability History Award.
Collaborating with Newberry staff across the library, Weimer will grow the Newberry’s map collections while integrating maps into our programming for scholars, teachers, students, and lifelong learners.