Dr. Kenneth Foote
"Building Community, Changing Culture"

Dr. Kenneth Foote is the president (2010-11) of the Association of American Geographers, and received the AAG's Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education in 2005. He has led a number of instructional materials development projects in the Web including The Geographer's Craft Project and the Virtual Geography Department Project, funded by the National Science Foundation. His latest NSF project is the Geography Faculty Development Alliance to provide professional development opportunities for early career geography faculty. He is also co-PI on the AAG's Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE) Project, also funded by NSF.

Research specializations:

• Cultural and historical geography focusing on American and European landscape history
• Geographic information science and related computer and Internet technologies
• Learning and teaching geography in higher education, including instructional technology and issues of professional development for early career faculty.