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Julia Maxwell is an academic librarian and social science researcher, as well as a PhD student at Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information.

Maxwell's research interests include: Libraries and librarian roles in public health, public policy, and political citizenship; library learning in formal and informal settings; librarians and evidence synthesis/evidence-based practice; librarians and digital citizenship; open and public scholarship, the decolonizing and un-gatekeeping scholarship by libraries and librariansc; culturally responsive, feminist, antiracist, and queer pedagogies in library instruction and outreach

Maxwell is interested in helping learners recognize their power, specifically in situations that may have been traditionally gatekept or have minimized the lived experience as factors in their learning.

Maxwell holds an MS in Information, MA in Education, and Grad Cert in Learning Experience Design from the University of Michigan.

Maxwell won a 2024 Carnegie-Whitney Grant for the project "Public Libraries and Older Adults: An Annotated Bibliography for Social Workers and Public Librarians."