He is the director of the Ph.D. Program in Spatially Integrated Social Science, and the director of the Center for Geographic Information Science and Applied Geographics (GISAG) at UT. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, an M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). At UWM, Lindquist spent three years at the Center for Urban Transportation Studies in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, where his work earned him a number of professional awards (state, regional and national) from the Institute of Transportation Engineers.