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Denis Cosgrove (Denis Edmund Cosgrove) was born on 3 May, 1948 in Liverpool, England, is a British cultural geographer and professor. Discover Denis Cosgrove's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 3 May, 1948
Birthday 3 May
Birthplace Liverpool, England
Date of death 2008
Died Place West Hollywood, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1948

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.

1969

He graduated in 1969, going on to complete an MA in Geography at the University of Toronto.

1970

In 1970, Cosgrove married Isobel Thubron; they had two daughters and later divorced.

1972

After marrying his first wife in New York, he returned to the University of Oxford to do a doctorate with a "head full of new ideas", but with little academic support, and left to take a job "up the hill" as Lecturer at Oxford Polytechnic in 1972.

1976

Meanwhile, his thesis on Venetian landscape was submitted for a Bachelor of Letters (BLitt) degree, only to be successfully resubmitted for a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1976 on the insistence of its examiner, David Lowenthal, who considered it an outstanding piece of work.

1980

Cosgrove remained at Oxford Polytechnic until 1980, rising to be Principal Lecturer.

1988

He then moved to Loughborough University becoming Reader in 1988, before transferring to Royal Holloway, University of London in 1994 as Professor, ultimately serving as Dean of the Graduate School.

1989

In 1989, he married Carmen Mills, and they had a son.

1998

In 1998, he received the prestigious Back Award from the Royal Geographical Society.

Cosgrove was born and raised in Liverpool, the second eldest of six children.

His father, a bank manager and devout Roman Catholic, was very active in his upbringing, sending him to the Jesuit school he had himself attended, St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool.

Geography was a subject Cosgrove loved, but the school had a low opinion of it, and as an A-stream student he was forced to drop it in favour of Latin and Greek (protesting to the headmaster, a priest, his mother was told emphatically "geography is a girl's subject").

He won an open scholarship to read geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

2000

Cosgrove was appointed Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000, remaining a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London until his death.

2005

He delivered the influential Hettner Lectures in 2005.

Following his death, he was widely recognised for his contribution to the field, including an extensive reflection on his career and research in the journal Cultural Geographies.

The Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London holds an annual lecture in his honour.

2006

Cosgrove was about to become chairman of the Geography department at UCLA, when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2006.

2008

He had been named Getty Distinguished Scholar for 2008-9, and had planned to work on Geography and Art in Los Angeles.

Cosgrove died of cancer at his home West Hollywood, California, on 21 March 2008, at the age of 59.

In February 2008, Cosgrove was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tallinn University., having previously been awarded the prestigious Back Award from the Royal Geographical Society in 1988.

2015

Cosgrove's research interests evolved from a focus on the meanings of landscape in human and cultural geography, especially in Western Europe since the 15th century, to a broader concern with the role of spatial images and representations in the making and communicating of knowledge.

His work included how visual images have been used in history to shape geographical imaginations and in connection between geography as a formal discipline, imaginative expressions of geographical knowledge and experience in the visual arts (including cartography).

This research made essential contributions to the development of geography of media and communication.

This broad concern was pursued through a series of focussed studies: of landscape transformation, design and images in 16th-century Venice and north Italy, of landscape writings by authors such as John Ruskin, of landscape, space and performance in 20th century Rome, of cosmography in early modern Europe (1450–1650), and of the history of Western imaginings of the globe and whole earth.

He has also written extensively on theory in cultural geography and edited for six years the journal Ecumene (now titled Cultural Geographies) which publishes cross-disciplinary work on environment, culture and meaning.

Within his cultural research, Cosgrove differentiated between dominant cultures and alternative cultures.

The dominant culture has the most influence in shaping a landscape.

Most of what you see, he claimed, is likely to be a product of the dominant culture in a region.

However, one is also likely to see evidence of alternative, or subcultures in the landscape.

Within the category of alternative culture, Cosgrove differentiated between residual cultures (historic cultures that have disappeared or are in the process of fading away), emergent cultures (those that are just now appearing), and excluded cultures (those that are actively or passively excluded by the dominant culture).