Denis Cosgrove

Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948 – 21 March 2008) was a British cultural geographer. He taught at Oxford Polytechnic, Loughborough University, Royal Holloway, University of London, where he rose to become dean of the graduate school, and finally at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1998, he received the prestigious Back Award from the Royal Geographical Society.

Denis Cosgrove
Born
Denis Edmund Cosgrove

(1948-05-03)3 May 1948
Liverpool, England
Died21 March 2008(2008-03-21) (aged 59)
West Hollywood, California, U.S.
NationalityBritish
Spouses
  • Isobel Thubron
    (m. 1970, divorced)
  • Carmen Mills
    (m. 1989)
Children3
Awards
  • Royal Geographical Society Back Award (1998)
  • Honorary Doctorate, Tallinn University (2008)
Academic background
Alma mater
  • University of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
  • University of Toronto (MA)
ThesisPalladian Landscape: Geographical change and its cultural representations in 16th century Italy (1976)
Academic work
DisciplineGeography
Sub-disciplineCultural Geography
Institutions
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Loughborough University
  • Oxford Polytechnic
Doctoral studentsProfessor Veronica Della Dora FBA
Notable works
  • Social formation and symbolic landscape (1998)
  • The iconography of landscape: Essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments (1988) (edited with Stephen Daniels)
  • Apollo's Eye: A cartographic genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination (2001)
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