Dr. Foote is a national councilor of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), former editor of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) Pathways series of publications for geography educators (2000-2004), a past editor of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and a member of the Geography Education National Implementation Project (GENIP). He is presently Vice President for Research and External Relations of the NCGE and will serve as NCGE President in 2006.
Among his educational projects, Dr. Foote leads the Geography Faculty Development Alliance, a five-year project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to provide support for early career faculty in higher education. His other NSF-funded projects have been in instructional technology, particularly the development of Web-based materials for learning and teaching geography in higher education. These include the Geographer's Craft Project (1992-96), one of the first online textbooks in geography, and the Virtual Geography Department Project to establish an international clearinghouse for innovative curriculum materials in the Worldwide Web.
Foote also writes in historical and cultural geography, including the recent revised and expanded edition of Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (2003). Other books include Color in Public Spaces (1983) and the co-edited Re-Reading Cultural Geography (1994).
Links to these projects can be found at www.colorado.edu/geography/foote/foote.html