Scott M. Freundschuh
Director, CCRR

Dr. Scott Freundschuh is associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota at Duluth (where he serves as department head and director of the environmental studies program), and director of the Center for Community and Regional Research (CCRR). With assistance from the Department of Geography, College of Liberal Arts, and an advisory board, he reviews CCRR proposals and administers a wide range of both discipline-based and interdisciplinary research projects.

Scott teaches courses in map design and theory, geo-visualization, and geographic information science. He also maintains a research program in spatial cognition, exploring how age and sources of spatial information inform and shape spatial knowledge and spatial concepts.  He has served as editor of Cartographic Perspectives (2000 through 2007), co-edited the book Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future with Rob Kitchin in 2000, and has published articles in The Professional Geographer, Geographical Systems, Transactions in GIS, Cartographica and The Cartographic Journal.

Scott can be reached at 218-726-6226 or by e-mail at sfreunds@d.umn.edu.