KEN FOOTE

Professor

Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder

Guggenheim Geography Bldg. 102B, Campus Box 260 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0260

Office: 303-***-****, Cell: 303-***-****, E-mail: abqal8@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/foote/foote.html

Education 1

Highlights of Leadership and Administrative Experience 1

Honors and Awards 5

Publications

Books 5

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters 6

Major Projects and Publications in the Web 11

Recent Informal and Popular Writings and Interviews 11

Major Research and Educational Grants 12

Presentations 13

Faculty Appointments and Teaching Experience 14

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Department of Geography (1982). Awarded National Science

Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1977-1981).

M.A., University of Chicago, Department of Geography (1978).

B.A. with Honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography (1976). Phi

Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.

Highlights of Leadership and Administrative Experience

1) Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC

a) President (2010-2011), Vice-President (2009-2010), Past President (2011-2012)

Responsibilities included oversight of a $5.25 million annual budget; a $6.8 million endowment;

a 24-person staff; and a membership of 11,000 professional and academic geographers. The

association publishes two of the major international journals in geography and convenes the

largest annual geography meeting in the world (8,700 attendees in spring 2012). The president is

also the liaison for the 9 regional divisions and the many committees and specialty groups of the

association. Notable accomplishments during presidency:

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Increased the AAG's endowment, The Fund for Geography's Future, by $2 million

Published the co-edited Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the

Environment with Pearson as part of the EDGE project (below)

Section editor for a 15-volume, 5 million word International Encyclopedia of Geography:

People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology with Wiley-Blackwell

Served as co-PI of the Enhancing Departments and Graduate Program in geography project

funded by the National Science Foundation, http://www.aag.org/cs/edge

Led the Geography Faculty Development Project, 2002-present. This has included

organizing and leading sixteen 1-week summer workshops and dozens of follow up paper,

panel and workshop sessions at national and regional geography meetings.

Organized and chaired presidential plenary session on "The "Changing Worlds of Higher

Education: Opportunities and Challenges" for the 2011 Annual Meeting in Seattle

Organized and led the annual Department Leadership workshop, 2010-present. Themes have

included: 1) Beyond the ivory tower: Strategies for preparing students for careers in business,

government, and non-profit organizations; 2) Supporting early career faculty: Strategies for

improving practice in grad school and beyond; and 3) Promoting diversity.

Initiated new, annual half-day Chairs' Symposium during annual meeting, 2011-present.

Topics have included: 1) Making the case for geography; and 2) Strategic plans and self-

study reports.

Senior advisor in projects focusing on diversity issues including: 1) the Addressing Locally-

tailored Information Infrastructure & Geoscience Needs for Enhancing Diversity

(ALIGNED) project, 2010-present; and Catalyzing Research on Geographies of Broadening

Participation, 2012-present.

b) National Councilor (2002-2005), member of the governing board of the AAG.

c) Member and Chair, AAG Honors Committee, 2007-2008

d) Member, Editorial Board, The Professional Geographer, 1997-2000. One of the two flagship

journals of the AAG.

e) Chair, Commission on College Geography (1999-2002). The AAG's main committee on

undergraduate education.

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2) National Council for Geographic Education, Washington, DC

a) President (2006), Past President (2007)

Responsibilities included oversight of a $500,000 annual budget; a $1 million endowment; a 3-

person staff; and a membership of 2,500 K-16 educators. The association publishes two of the

major educational journals in geography and convenes the annual Conference on Geographic

Education. Notable accomplishments during presidency:

Acquired a new journal, The Geography Teacher

Negotiated a 5-year contract with Taylor and Francis to publish The Geography Teacher and

The Journal of Geography

Negotiated contract for move of organization from its former administrative home to

Washington, DC, in shared quarters with the Association of American Geographers.

b) Vice President for Research and External Relations, National Council for Geographic

Education, 2003-2005.

c) Editor, Pathways in Geography Monograph Series, 2000-2004. Acquired, edited and

published 8 monographs on topics in geography education.

d) Member, George K. Miller Honors Committee, 2007-2009.

e) Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Geography, 2000-present.

f) Member, Executive Planning Board, the main governing council, 2000-2002.

3) University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000-present

a) Chair (2002-2005), Associate Chair for Graduate Studies (2001-2002).

Responsibilities included oversight of a $3.1 million annual budget; a 24-person faculty and 4-

person staff. The department has approximately 250 majors and about 100 in-residence graduate

students. It is one of the major graduate programs in the U.S. and was rated as tied for 2nd place

in the recent NRC assessment of doctoral programs. Notable accomplishments during term as

chair:

Balanced budget after 6 years of deficit spending.

Developed mentoring guidelines for all assistant and associate professors.

Reviewed and revised merit review procedures.

Established a new graduate fellowship.

Organized first-ever alumni reunion as kick-off a fund raising campaign

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b) Member, Executive Advisory Committee. 2010-2013. Major advisory board to the Dean of

Graduate Studies and Vice-Chancellor for Research on research policy and appointments.

c) Member, Advisory Board, Faculty Teaching Excellence Program, University of Colorado at

Boulder, 2000-2005. Led workshops for faculty.

4) University of Texas at Austin, 1983-1999.

a) Founder and Director, Environmental Information Systems Laboratory, Department of

Geography, 1985-2000. Created the first geographic information system (GIS) laboratory at

the University of Texas with grants from NSF, IBM, Intel, and other corporations and

developed the first undergraduate and graduate curricula in GIS at the University of Texas

b) Chair, Faculty Computer Committee, 1995-97. Member, 1986-97. This committee was the

major campus-wide advisory board to the provost on investment in computer and information

technology from laptops to supercomputers.

c) Member, Liberal Arts Faculty Computer Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of

Texas at Austin, 1987-1998. This committee was the major advisory board to the dean on

investment in computer and information technology.

d) Member, Information Technology Self-Study Committee, University of Texas

Reaccreditation Committee, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1996-98.

e) Member, Liberal Arts Faculty Council, College of Liberal Arts, 1988-1991.

5) Other Professional and Administrative Service

a) North American Editor, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1998-2003. This is the

major international journal on undergraduate and graduate geography education.

b) Director, Board of Directors, Colorado Geography Education Foundation, 2006-present.

Oversees $1 million endowment of the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education, an

organization supporting K-12 geography education.

c) External Evaluator, National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education,

1996-1998 for science, mathematics, and digital library projects at Dartmouth College;

Minnesota State University, Mankato; and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

d) External Evaluator of geography and geoscience programs at University of Cincinnati;

University of New Mexico; San Diego State University; Miami University of Ohio;

University of Massachusetts at Amherst; and Texas A&M University.

e) Member, Geography Education National Implementation Project (GENIP), 1999-2005. Major

inter-association coordinating committee for geographic education.

f) Member, American Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Project: Support For

Thinking Spatially: The Incorporation of Geographic Information Science Across the K-12

Curriculum, 2000-2003.

g) Member, Review Panel, National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education

and Geography and Spatial Science Program, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010,

2012.

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Honors and Awards

President, Association of American Geographers, 2010-2011

President, National Council for Geographic Education, 2006

Royal Geographic Society Taylor & Francis Award for teaching and learning in geography in

higher education, 2012

Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education, Association of American Geographers,

2005.

Journal of Geography in Higher Education Biennial Award for Promoting Excellence in

Teaching and Learning, 2003-2004.

Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-

2000.

Fulbright Fellowship, Hungary, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars. 1998-1999.

J. B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers for Shadowed Ground, 1998

Historic Preservation Prize of Mary Washington College for Shadowed Ground, 1998.

Publication Award of Geographical Society of Chicago for Shadowed Ground, 1998.

Robert Hamilton Award of the University of Texas at Austin for Shadowed Ground, 1998.

Innovative Use of Instructional Technology Award, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin, 1992.

Walter Prescott Webb Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1989.

Publications

Books

Ryan, Marie-Laure, Maoz Azaryahu, and Kenneth E. Foote. Under contract (manuscript due

January 2013). Space, Place and Story: Toward a Spatial Theory of Narrative. Columbus:

Ohio State University Press.

Foote, Kenneth E. and Anett rvay. Under contract. Contested Places, Contested Pasts: Public

Memory and Commemoration in Contemporary Hungary. George F. Thompson Publishers.

Solem, Michael N., Kenneth E. Foote, and Janice J. Monk, eds. 2013. Practicing Geography:

Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Unwin, David, Kenneth E. Foote, Nicholas J. Tate, and David DiBiase, eds. 2012. Teaching

GIScience and Technology in Higher Education. Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Solem, Michael N., Kenneth E. Foote, and Janice J. Monk, eds. 2009. Aspiring Academics: A

Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty. Upper Saddle River, NJ:

Prentice-Hall.

Solem, Michael N. and Kenneth E. Foote, eds. 2009. Teaching College Geography: A Practical

Guide for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-

Hall.

Veselka, Robert E. 2000. The Courthouse Square in Texas. Edited by Kenneth E. Foote. Austin:

University of Texas Press.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1997. Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy.

Austin: University of Texas Press.

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Japanese translation of Shadowed Ground published by the University of Nagoya Press in

2002.

Revised and expanded edition published by the University of Texas Press in 2003.

Foote, Kenneth E., Peter Hugill, Kent Mathewson, and Jonathan Smith, eds. 1994. Re-Reading

Cultural Geography. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1983. Color in Public Spaces: Toward A Communication-Based Theory of

the Urban Built Environment. Chicago: University of Chicago, Department of Geography

Research Paper No. 205.

Ginsburg, Norton S., Richard Dahlberg, and Kenneth E. Foote. 1983. The Rand McNally Atlas

of the United States. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

Foote, Kenneth E., Mark Boyle and Mary Gilmartin. In press. Rethinking the PhD in Geography:

Introduction and Overview. Guest editors for special issue of GeoJournal.

Foote, Kenneth E. In press. Supporting and Mentoring International Faculty: Issues and

Strategies. In Coming from Abroad: International Students and Faculty in the United States,

eds. Heike Alberts and Helen Hazen. New York: Palgrave.

Vanneste, Dominique and Kenneth E. Foote. 2013. War, Heritage, Tourism, and the Centenary of

the Great War in Flanders and Belgium. In War and Tourism, eds. Richard Butler and

Wantanee Suntikul, 254-272. London: Routledge.

Monk, Jan, Kenneth E. Foote, and M. Beth Schlemper. 2012. Graduate Education in U.S.

Geography: Students Career Aspirations and Faculty Perspectives. Annals of the

Association of American Geographers 102:6, 1432-1449

Foote, Kenneth E. 2012. Editing Memory and Automobility & Race: Two Learning Activities on

Contested Heritage and Place. Southeastern Geographer 52 (4): 384-397.

Foote, Kenneth E., Sarah W. Bednarz, Janice J. Monk, Michael N. Solem, and Joseph P.

Stoltman. 2012. Rethinking Postgraduate Geography Education in the USA: Issues and

Concerns. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 36 (1): 57-64.

Monk, Janice J., Kenneth E. Foote, and Michael N. Solem. 2012. Rethinking Postgraduate

Education in Geography: International Perspectives on Improving Practice. Journal of

Geography in Higher Education 36 (1): 25-27.

Holmberg, Molly O., Jung Eun Hong, and Kenneth E. Foote. 2012. Perception and Sense of

Place. In 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook, ed. Joseph P. Stoltman, 149-160.

Thousand Oaks. CA: Sage.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2012. Scope and Sequence in GIS&T Curricula: Learning Theory, Learning

Cycles, and Spiral Curricula. In Teaching GIScience and Technology in Higher Education,

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eds. David Unwin, Kenneth E. Foote, Nicholas J. Tate, and David DiBiase, 81-95.

Chichester: Wiley.

Foote, Kenneth E. and Dominique Vanneste. 2011. The Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper. In Sacred

Places in Modern Western Culture, eds. Paul Post, Arie L. Molendijk, and Justin E. A.

Kroesen, 253-257. Leuven: Peeters.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2011. Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City, USA.

In Sacred Places in Modern Western Culture, eds. Paul Post, Arie L. Molendijk, and Justin E.

A. Kroesen, 259-263. Leuven: Peeters.

Foote, Kenneth E. and Sylvia Grider. 2011. The Columbine High School shooting, Colorado,

USA. In Sacred Places in Modern Western Culture, eds. Paul Post, Arie L. Molendijk, and

Justin E. A. Kroesen, 279-282. Leuven: Peeters.

Sylvia Grider and Kenneth E. Foote. 2011. Vernacular Memorials and Spontaneous Shrines. In

Sacred Places in Modern Western Culture, eds. Paul Post, Arie L. Molendijk, and Justin E.

A. Kroesen, 283-287. Leuven: Peeters.

Foote, Kenneth E. and Sylvia Grider. 2010. Memorialization of US College and University

Tragedies: Spaces of Mourning and Remembrance. In Deathscapes: Spaces for Death,

Dying, Mourning and Remembrance, eds. Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway, 181-205.

Farnham, UK: Ashgate.

Foote, Kenneth E., Myra Bambacus, Qianjun Miao, Huayi Wu, Wenwen Li, Jing Li, Jiqiang Tan,

Yanli Tang, Min Sun, and Hongwei Yu. 2010. Vision for Geoinformation Science. In

Advanced GeoInformation Science, eds. Chaowei Yang, David Wong, Qianjun Miao, and

Ruixin Yang, 415-451. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. CAD Systems. In Encyclopedia of Geography, ed. Barney Warf.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. www.sage-ereference.com/geography/Article_n127.html.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. JGHE Annual Lecture 2008: Creating a Community of Support for

Early Career Academics. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 34 (1):7-19.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. Shadowed Ground, Sacred Place: Reflections on Violence, Tragedy,

Memorials and Public Commemorative Rituals. In Holy Ground: Re-inventing Ritual Space

in Modern Western Culture, eds. Paul Post and Arie L. Molendijk, 93-117. Leuven: Peeters.

Solem, Michael N. and Kenneth E. Foote. 2009. Enhancing Departments and Graduate

Education in Geography: A Disciplinary Project in Professional Development. International

Journal of Researcher Development 1(1):11-28.

Foote, Kenneth E. and Maoz Azaryahu. 2009. Semiotics. In International Encyclopedia of

Human Geography, vol. 10, eds. Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift, 89-95. Oxford: Elsevier.

Foote, Kenneth E. and Maoz Azaryahu. 2009. Sense of Place. In International Encyclopedia of

Human Geography, eds. Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift, 96-100. Oxford: Elsevier.

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Foote, Kenneth E. & Michael N. Solem. 2009. Toward Better Mentoring for Early Career

Faculty: Results of a Study of U.S. Geographers. International Journal for Academic

Development 14(1): 47-58.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2009. Time Management. In Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for

Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty, eds. Michael N. Solem, Kenneth E. Foote, and

Janice Monk, 5-15. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Foote, Kenneth E., Wei Li, Janice Monk and Rebecca Theobald. 2008. Foreign-born Scholars in

U.S. Universities: Issues, Concerns, and Strategies. Journal of Geography in Higher

Education 32 (2): 167-178.

Azaryahu, Maoz and Kenneth E. Foote. 2008. Historical Space as Narrative Medium: On the

Configuration of Spatial Narratives of Time at Historical Sites. GeoJournal 73 (3): 179-194.

Holmberg, Molly O. and Kenneth E. Foote. 2008. Journalistic Cartography on the Web: A

Comparison of Print and Online Maps in Seven Major American Newspapers. In

International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet, eds. Michael P. Peterson, 323-340.

Berlin: Springer.

Foote, Kenneth E. and Maoz Azaryahu. 2007. Toward a Geography of Memory: Geographical

Dimensions of Public Memory and Commemoration. Journal of Political and Military

Sociology 35 (1): 125-144.

Solem, Michael N. and Kenneth E. Foote. 2006. Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early

Career Geography Faculty: Research Context and Future Directions. Journal of Geography

in Higher Education 30 (2): 195-198.

National Research Council. 2005. Learning to Think Spatially. Washington, DC: National

Academies Press.

Member of NRC Committee on Support for Thinking Spatially: The Incorporation of

Geographic Information Science across the K-12 Curriculum which researched and prepared

the report.

Solem, Michael N. and Kenneth E. Foote. 2004. Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early

Career Geography Faculty. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 (4): 889-

912.

Awarded the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Biennial Award for Promoting

Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2003-2004.

Reprinted in Journal of Geography in Higher Education 30 (2) (July 2006): 199-234.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2004. Cultural Patterns and Processes. In A Guide for Teachers of Advanced

Placement Geography, ed. Robert S. Bednarz, 13-18. Jacksonville, AL: National Council for

Geographic Education and the Geography Education National Implementation Project.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2003. Semiotic Aspects of Geography. In Semiotics: A Handbook on the

Sign-Theoretic Foundations of Nature and Culture, Volume 3, eds. R. Posner, K. Robering,

and T.A. Sebeok, 2636-2642. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

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Foote, Kenneth E., Attila T th and Anett rvay. 2001. Eml kez s, nemzeti identit s, politikai

eml km vek rombol sa (Memory, national identity, and the destruction of political

memorials). Studia Historiae Literarum et Artium 3: 138-163.

Foote, Kenneth E., Attila T th and Anett rvay. 2000. Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a New

Past on Place. The Geographical Review 90 (3): 301-334.

Hay, Iain, Kenneth E. Foote, and Mick Healey. 2000. From Cheltenham to Honolulu: The

Purposes and Projects of the International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT)

Geography in Higher Education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 24: 221-227.

Healey, Mick, Kenneth E. Foote, and Iain Hay. 2000. Introduction to JGHE Symposium:

International Perspectives on Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education.

Journal of Geography in Higher Education 24: 217-220.

Goett, Jennifer A. and Kenneth E. Foote. 2000. Cultivating Student Research and Study Skills in

Web-Based Learning Environments. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 24: 92-99.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1999. Memorials. In Violence in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed.

Ronald Gottesman and Richard M. Brown, Vol. 2, 353-358. New York: Charles Scribner's

Sons.

von Meyer, Nancy, Donald J. Huebner, and Kenneth E. Foote. 1999. Information Quality

Considerations for Coastal Data. In Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems,

eds. Dawn J. Wright and Darius J. Bartlett, 295-308. London: Taylor & Francis.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1999. Bringing Faculty Online: Inspiring and Sustaining Innovation in

Information and Computer Technologies. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 23: 5-

7.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1999. Building Disciplinary Collaborations in the Worldwide Web: Strategies

and Barriers. Journal of Geography 98: 108-117.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1997. The Geographer's Craft: Teaching GIS in the Web. Transactions in

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 2: 137-150.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1995. From Idea to Impact: Realizing Educational Innovation in the Social

Sciences. In Project Impact: Disseminating Innovation in Undergraduate Education, ed.

Ann Neal and others, 75-80. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, Division of

Undergraduate Education.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1994. The Geographer's Craft: A New Approach to Teaching Geographical

Methods in the Liberal Arts Curriculum. The Pennsylvania Geographer. 32: 1-25.

Hugill, Peter J. and Kenneth E. Foote. 1994. Re-reading Cultural Geography. In Re-reading

Cultural Geography, ed. Kenneth E. Foote, Peter Hugill, Kent Mathewson, and Jonathan

Smith, 9-23. Austin: University of Texas Press.

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Foote, Kenneth E. 1994. What the World Means. In Re-reading Cultural Geography, ed.

Kenneth E. Foote, Peter Hugill, Kent Mathewson, and Jonathan Smith, 291-296. Austin:

University of Texas Press.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1994. Comment on American History and the Structures of Collective

Memory by Michael H. Frisch. In Memory and History: Essays on Recalling and

Interpreting Experience, eds. Jaclyn Jeffrey and Glenace Edwall, 58-60. Lanham, MD:

University Press of America.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1992. Stigmata of National Identity: Exploring the Cosmography of

America's Civil Religion. In Person, Place, and Thing: Interpretive and Empirical Essays in

Cultural Geography, ed. S.T. Wong, 379-402. Geoscience and Man 31.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1992. Mapping the Past: A Survey of Microcomputer Cartography. Historical

Methods 25: 121-131.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1991. Semiotics and Geography. In Recent Developments in Theory and

History: The Semiotic Web 1990, eds. T.A. Sebeok and J. Umiker-Sebeok, 355-363. Berlin:

Mouton de Gruyter.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1990. To Remember and Forget: Archives, Memory, and Culture. American

Archivist 53: 378-392.

Reprinted in: Jimerson, Randall C., ed. 2000. American Archival Studies: Readings in

Theory and Practice. Chicago: Society of American Archivists.

Aitken, Stuart C., Susan L Cutter, Kenneth E. Foote, and James L. Sell. 1989. Environmental

Perception and Behavioral Geography. In Geography in America, eds. G. Gaile and C.

Willmott, 218-238. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill Publishing Co.

Rowntree, Lester B., Kenneth E. Foote, and Mona Domosh. 1989. Cultural Geography. In

Geography in America, eds. G. Gaile and C. Willmott, 209-217. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill

Publishing Co.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1988. Object as Memory: The Material Foundations of Human Semiosis.

Semiotica 69: 243-268.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1987. Relics of Old London: Photographs of a Changing Victorian City.

History of Photography 11: 133-153.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1986. Documentary Photography and Questions of Urban Change. Urban

Geography 7: 462-468.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1986. Mobility Impairment and Pharmacy Accessibility: Conflict in a

Commercial Built Environment. Environment and Behavior 18: 571-603.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1985. Velocities of Change of a Built Environment, 1880-1980: Evidence

from the Photoarchives of Austin, Texas. Urban Geography 6: 220-245.

Foote, Kenneth E. 1985. The Toronto Olympics: The International Summer Institute for

Semiotic And Structural Studies (ISISSS) 84 in Review. Semiotica 53: 363-375.

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Foote, Kenneth E. 1985. Space, Territory, and Landscape: The Borderlands of Geography and

Semiotics. Recherche Semiotique/Semiotic Inquiry 5: 158-175.

Bouissac, Paul, Jean-Claude Gardin, and Kenneth E. Foote. 1984. A Program for Semiotics.

Semiotica 52: 1-5.

Major Projects and Publications in the Web

The Geographer's Craft Project. A Electronic Textbook and Laboratory Manual in Geographic

Information Science. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of

Geography, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/contents.html 1993 to present.

The Virtual Geography Department Project. A Distributed Curriculum Development Initiative

among American Universities. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado at Boulder, Department

of Geography, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/contents.html 1995 to present.

Recent Informal and Popular Writings and Interviews

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. Supporting Early Career Faculty. AAG Newsletter 45 (7) (August): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. Supporting International Faculty in U.S. Geography. AAG Newsletter

45 (8) (September): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. Toward Better Mentoring. AAG Newsletter 45 (9) (October): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. Supporting Early Career Geographers beyond the Academy, AAG

Newsletter 45 (10) (November): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2010. Geography by the Numbers? AAG Newsletter 45 (11) (December) : 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2011. A Sabbatical for Doug Richardson. AAG Newsletter 46 (1) (January):

3, 5.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2011. Strengthening Department Leadership: Sharing Strategies and Practice.

AAG Newsletter 46 (2) (February): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2011. Addressing the Needs of Contingent Faculty. AAG Newsletter 46 (3)

(March): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2011. Promoting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Geography.

AAG Newsletter 46 (4) (April): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2011. Facing New Realities: The Work-Life Nexus. AAG Newsletter 46 (5)

(May): 3.

Foote, Kenneth E. 2011. Building Community, Changing Culture. AAG Newsletter 46 (6)

(June): 3.

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Interviews for: Los Angeles Times (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012); KVUE 24 Television, Austin, Texas

(1997); USA Today (1997, 2002); National Public Radio (1997); Mail Tribune, Medford,

Oregon (1997); Christian Science Monitor (1997, 2003); New York Times (2001, 2002)

Washington (DC) City Paper (2001), Chicago Tribune (2001), Crain's New York Business

(2002), San Diego Union-Tribune (2002); The Salt Lake Tribune (2002); Newsday, New

York (2002); Associated Press (2003); Modesto (CA) Bee (2003); Ft. Worth Star Telegram

(2003); Rocky Mountain News (2004); Daily Times-Call, Longmont, Colorado (2004, 2005,

2006); The Newhouse News Service (2004); the Boulder, Colorado, Daily Camera (2004,

2005, 2006, 2007, 2010); Austin (TX) American-Statesman (2004, 2005); Pittsburgh Post-

Gazette (2004); Wall Street Journal (2005); Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (2007); University of

Colorado News and Information Service (2007, 2011); Chronicle of Higher Education

(2007); Minnesota Public Radio (2008); Cond Nast Traveller (2008); KOA radio (Denver)

(2009); National Public Radio (2010, 2011); Associated Press (2011); Denver Post (2008,

2012), BBC World Service (2012).

Major Research and Educational Grants

Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in Geography from the National Science

Foundation, Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)

program (2009-2012). Michael Solem (PI), Kenneth Foote (co-PI) and Janice Monk (co-PI).

Grant DRL-0910041. Award: $993,031.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: International Early-Career Faculty in American Higher

Education: The Case of the Discipline of Geography," under the direction of Kenneth E.

Foote, project advisor for Rebecca B. Theobald (2005-2007). Grant BCS 0526312. Award:

$9,998.

Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in Geography from the National Science

Foundation, Research on Learning and Education Program and Division of Graduate

Education (2006-2008). Michael Solem (PI), Kenneth Foote (co-PI) and Janice Monk (co-PI).

Grant NSF ROLE 0439914. Award: $980,393.

The Geography Faculty Development Alliance from the National Science Foundation (2001-06):

Grant DUE 0089434 $990,000.

Sites of Violence, Places of Memory: Field Research in Europe Faculty Research Assignment

(FRA) from the University of Texas at Austin (1998-99). Award: $30,000 salary support.

Lecturing in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Hypermedia Development

Fulbright Fellowship, Hungary, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars. 1998-

1999.

Internet City with David Maidment (Civil Engineering) and Barbara Parmenter (Community and

Regional Planning), University of Texas at Austin from the Intel Corporation (1997-99).

Award: Servers and peripherals ($325,000) for Web development.

The Geography Virtual Department: Building and Linking Geography Curricula Nationally Using

the Internet and Worldwide Web from the National Science Foundation (1995-98). Grant

DUE-9554947: $303,000 for staff support and participant support costs for summer

workshops.

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The Geographer's Craft: Hypermedia Materials for Teaching Geographical Methods in the

Liberal Arts Curriculum from the National Science Foundation (1993-95). Grant DUE-

9354476: $140,000 for staff support.

The Geographer's Craft: A New Model for Teaching Geographical Techniques in the Liberal Arts

Curriculum from the National Science Foundation (1992-94). Grant USE-9250310: $63,712

for computer systems. The project is supported by an additional $212,000 provided by the

University of Texas for equipment and $80,000 for remodeling and networking.

AutoCAD and Hypermedia Development from Autodesk, Inc. (1993). Award: Computer

software valued at approximately $51,000.

Integrated Database and Menu Structures for Geographic Information Systems from Geographic

Systems Corporation, Inc. (Green Bay, Wisconsin) (1991). Award: Computer software

valued at approximately $300,000.

Creating a Computer Cartography and Spatial Analysis Laboratory for Teaching and Research

from the IBM Corporation (1985-87). Award: Computer hardware and software valued at

approximately $395,000.

Presentations

Over the past decade I have delivered many lectures, served as a panelist and led workshops at

many professional meetings, conferences and universities, usually 5-10 times per year. Some of

the recent invited lectures include:

"Memorialization of U.S. School and University Tragedies: Spaces of Mourning and

Remembrance," Keynote address, Annual meeting of the East Lakes/West Lakes regional

divisions of the Association of American Geographers, October 2012, Northern Illinois

University, DeKalb, Illinois.

"Building Community, Changing Culture," Past president's plenary address, annual meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, February 2012, New York City.

"Shadowed Ground, Sacred Space," Keynote address, 7th Savannah Symposium, "The Spirituality of

Place. Savannah College of Art and Design, Architectural History Department, February 2011,

Savannah, GA

"Improving Support for Early Career Geographers," Keynote address at the following regional

meetings of Association of American Geographers:

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, Coeur D'Alene, ID,

September 2010

Great Plains/Rocky Mountain AAG Annual Meeting, Lawrence, KS, October 2010

Southwest AAG, Annual Meeting, Tahlequah, OK, October 2010

Middle Atlantic AAG Annual Meeting, West Point, NY, October 2010

Southeast AAG Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL, November 2010

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"Improving Support for Early Career Geographers," Canadian Association of Geographers,

Annual Meeting, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 2010.

"Shadowed Ground, Sacred Place: Reflections on Violence, Tragedy, Memorials and Public

Commemorative Rituals," Killeen Chair Lecture in Theology and Philosophy, "Sacred Spaces:

Marking the Extra/Ordinary." St. Norbert College, WI, February 2009.

"Saving Places with Difficult Pasts: Violence, Tragedy, and Challenges for Historic

Preservation," Colorado Preservation, Inc. Saving Places 2009 Conference, Denver, February

2009.

"Creating a climate of support for graduate students and early career faculty in Geography."

Second International Conference on Preparing Doctoral Research Students and Postdoctoral

Researchers for Academic Careers. Oxford University, April 2008.

"Creating a Community of Support for Early Career Academics," 2008 Journal of Geography in

Higher Education lecture, Annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the

Institute of British Geographers, London, August 2008.

"Shadowed Ground, Sacred Place: Reflections on Violence, Tragedy, Memorials and Public

Commemorative Rituals," International experts meeting on Re-inventing Ritual Space in

Modern Western Culture, Department of Religious Studies, University of Groningen, The

Netherlands, October 2007.

"Shadowed Ground and the Power of Commemorative Place Names," Department Colloquium,

University of Haifa, Israel, October 2007.

Faculty Appointments and Teaching Experience

University of Colorado at Boulder, Professor, 2000-present: Mapping a Changing World

(lower division introduction to the uses and history of cartography); Cartography 1: Visualization

and Information Design (lower division); Cartography II: Multimedia and Interactive Mapping

(upper division and graduate); Geography in Higher Education: Preparing for a Career in

Academic Geography (graduate seminar); Research Design in Human Geography (graduate

seminar); and Elements of Geographic Information Systems (graduate seminar and lab course).

University of Texas at Austin: Assistant Professor (1983-1990), Associate Professor (1990-

1998), Professor (1998-2000), Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor (1999-2000):

Computer Cartography (upper division); Geographic Information Systems (upper division and

graduate); The Geographer's Craft (upper division, two-semester course in geographic research

techniques); Frontiers in Geography (upper division capstone course in the history and

philosophy of geography); Economic Geography (lower division); Cultural Geography (upper

division and graduate).

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