Molly Taylor-Poleskey

Map Librarian
Harvard Map Collection

Molly Taylor-Poleskey is the Map Librarian at the Harvard Map Collection where she works with faculty to develop curriculum with the collection, plans exhibits, and collaborates on digital mapping projects.

Prior to this she was Associate Professor of Digital History at Middle Tennessee State University where she and her students worked on Public History projects focusing on racial justice in local history institutions including one AR/VR collaboration, Hidden Town in 3D, with Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC and MTSU’s Animation and CS departments.

Taylor-Poleskey is a historian with expertise in Mobility Studies and early modern Germany. Her first book came out in Oct. 2024 from UVA Press entitle The Great Elector’s Table: The Politics of Food in 17th-century Brandenburg-Prussia. Her data visualization from that food consumption data can be seen at www.taylor-poleskey.net. Her current work looks at the impossible problem of a digital map of the Holy Roman Empire.