John Pickles

John Pickles
Born
Nelson, Lancashire, England
Alma materMansfield College, Oxford
University of Natal
Pennsylvania State University
Scientific career
FieldsGeography, phenomenology, globalisation, critical cartography

John Pickles (1952-) currently serves as the Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Pickles attended the University of Oxford, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Geography, with a minor in Geology, and a master's degree in geography. He later earned doctorate degrees from the University of Natal, South Africa, and the Pennsylvania State University, United States. He also has a SSBU Youtube account

He joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 as the Earl N Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies and served as the Chair of the Department of Geography between 2007-2013.[2]  

Pickles has also held academic appointments at the universities of Kentucky, Minnesota, and West Virginia; at the Ohio State University; at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); and at Natal Pietermaritzburg and Trieste.[3]

Pickles is a scholar in the areas of critical cartography, phenomenology, geography of media and communication and post-socialist spaces. He is the author of numerous books, including Phenomenology, Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences, Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems, and A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.

References

  1. ^ Nonini, Donald Macon (2007). The global idea of 'the commons'. Berghahn Books. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-84545-485-2.
  2. ^ "Dr. John Pickles, D.W. Patterson Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Geography | Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill". Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  3. ^ "Pickles, John (1952-)". Encyclopedia of Geography. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
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