Mark J. Sciuchetti Jr.

Associate Professor of Geography
209 Martin Hall
256-782-5204
msciuchetti@jsu.edu 

Mark Sciuchetti, Associate Professor of Geography, holds a PhD in Geography and the MM in Musicology from the Florida State University and the MA in History from Columbus State University. His research interests include sound studies, urban geography, cultural geography, musical descriptions of the landscape and geo-humanities. He has collaborated across many fields, including business, history, musicology, and ethnomusicology. His dissertation research explored soundscapes on the Hudson River, New York, USA and the affectual capacity of sound to create and (re)create place and identity. He recently worked on a sound mapping project, Moravian Soundscapes, which is a sonic history of the Moravian mission communities in North America, specifically in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is also currently involved in an interdisciplinary research projects on sound and movement in space through water. Other research projects include indigenous soundscapes in Alabama and the connection between village life and sacred settings on the Choccolocco Mountains; the use of Business Analytics and Consumer clustering to engage nonprofits in marketing, heritage tourism and indigenous representation in Ohio; historical GIS and mapping of Moravian communities; Political Mapping of United States Elections; Soundscapes of the Grateful Dead, Mapping the Place and Time of Charles Ives' music; and sound reconstruction of the Apalachee and Spanish musical culture of Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, FL; and the soundscapes of Wakulla Springs, FL. He has received grants for his soundscape research from Florida State University, the Society for American Music, the National Park Service and Jacksonville State University.

Currently, he teaches undergraduate classes in Digital Mapping and GIS (GY208), Physical Geography I (GY250), Music, Geography, and graduate classes in Geospatial Programming (GIS419), Spatial Statistics (GIS517), Business Analytics (GIS570) along with many graduate special topics courses. In the classroom, he is interested in fostering collaborative learning and active participation, field work, and real-world experience and analysis.