Mark J. Sciuchetti Jr.

Interim Senior Director of Honors and Special Programs
Associate Professor of Geography
106 Martin Hall
256-782-5698
msciuchetti@jsu.edu 

Mark Sciuchetti, Interim Senior Director of Honors and 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.

As the Interim Senior Director of Honors, Dr. Sciuchetti works with staff and students to help build a robust program for Honors and Special Programs. He is dedicated to developing service-learning projects for students and engaging with the local community and Honors students on service project. Currently, he is working to engage with more faculty to teach honors courses and expanding the ever-growing program.

Mark Sciuchetti

Courses Taught

  • GY120 – World Regional Geography
  • GY208 - Intro to Digital Mapping and GIS
  • GY220 - Human Geography
  • GY250 – Physical Geography I
  • GY251 – Physical Geography II
  • GY406 – Music Geography
  • GY466 – Cultural Geography
  • GIS419 – Geospatial Programming
  • GIS517 – Spatial Statistics
  • GIS540 - Site Location Analysis
  • GIS570 - Business Analytics
  • GIS570 – Crime Mapping
  • MU233 - Introduction to Music

Education

Ph.D.
August 2019 The Florida State University, Department of Geography
Title: “Sound and Place: An Affective Geography of the Hudson River, New York, USA.”
Advisor: Dr. Victor Mesev, Harrison V. Chase Distinguished Professor of Geography

MBA
May 2024
Jacksonville State University, College of Business and Industry

M.M.
May 2018
The Florida State University, College of Music – Historical Musicology
Thesis Title: “Composing Place in Two Works by Emma Lou Diemer.”
Advisor: Dr. Denise Von Glahn, Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology

M.A.
May 2015
Columbus State University, Department of History
Thesis Title: “How and Why Patrons of the Arts used Music as a Form of Political Currency from 1780 to 1800.”
Advisor: Dr. Neal McCrillis, Columbus State University

Academic & Research Interests

Sound studies, Urban geography, Cultural geography, Geomarketing, Business Analytics, Audio-archaeology, Musical Descriptions of the Landscape and Geo-humanities.

Other Responsibilities

  • Secretary of the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG)
  • Track Chair and Editor for the Atlantic Marketing Association
  • Reviewer for The Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
  • Reviewer for The Geography Teacher

Publications and Presentations

Digital ScholarshipAnniston Civil Rights Movement Story MapsFunded by The City of Anniston, AL/National Park Servicehttps://tinyurl.com/5h89584uMoravian Soundscapeshttps://www.doi.org/10.33009/moraviansoundscapes_music_fsuSoundscapes of the Hudson Riverhttps://arcg.is/15b5150Recent Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-1264-1158)Sciuchetti, M., Huang, J., Green, J., and Cunningham, B. (2024). Geospatial Insights into Consumer Behavior: Mapping the Post-Restriction Pandemic Retail Landscape in Alabama. Southeastern Geographer,64(3): https://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.0.a932239

Sciuchetti, M. (2023). Prehistoric Sites, Indigenous Voices, and Preserving Identities: Using Sound Mapping to Engage with Indigenous Sites in North America. Acoustic Ecology Review, 1(1). Doi: https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/aer/article/view/5380/5496

Huang, J. and Sciuchetti, M. J. (2023). ChatGPT Unveiled: Unleashing AI Magic in Online Shopping and Digital Marketing. Atlantic Marketing Journal, 12(2): Article 1. doi: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/amj/vol12/iss2/1/

Ford, C. R., Sciuchetti, M. J., Burns, M., Moses, R., Wickersham, K., Ingalsbe, D., & Newton, A. (2023). Assessing graduate faculty perceptions of the faculty‐student mentorship dynamic. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2023(176), 53–63. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/tl.20568

Sciuchetti, M. (2022). Mapping, Fieldwork, and the Moravian Archives. Journal of Moravian History, 22(2): 194-205. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/jmorahist.22.2.0194

Sciuchetti, M., Huang, J. (2022). Permission-based Marketing: Using GIS to Create Information Visualizations for Nonprofit Organizations. Proceedings of the Atlantic Marketing Association. doi: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1675&context=ama_proceedings