Philip Crang
Philip Andrew Crang, FAcSS, is a British cultural and human geographer. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Life[edit]
Education and career[edit]
Crang completed his undergraduate degree at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1986.[1] He remained at the University of Cambridge to carry out his doctoral studies;[2] his PhD was awarded in 1992 for his thesis "'A new service society?': On the geographies of service employment".[3] After finishing his doctorate, Crang lectured at St David's College, Lampeter,[4] and later moved to University College London,[5] where he was Lecturer in Human Geography.[6] He moved to Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2000 and took up the post of Reader in Human Geography.[2][7] He was promoted to Professor of Cultural Geography in 2005.[8]
Honours and awards[edit]
In October 2012, Crang was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (later renamed Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences).[9]
Publications[edit]
- (Edited with Mike Crang and Jon May) Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space, Relations (Routledge, 1999).
- (Edited with Mark Goodwin and Paul Cloke) Introducing Human Geographies (Hodder Headline, 1999).
- (Edited with Peter Jackson and Claire Dwyer) Transnational Spaces (Routledge, 2004).
- (Co-authored with Chris Philo, Ian Cook, Joe Painter, Mark Goodwin, Paul Cloke) Practising Human Geography (Sage, 2004).
- (Co-edited with Paul Cloke and Mark Goodwin) Envisioning Human Geographies (Hodder Headline, 2004).
- (Co-authored with Christopher Breward and Rosemary Crill) British Asian Style: Fashion & Textiles: Past & Present (V&A Publishing, 2010).
References[edit]
- ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 304.
- ^ a b "Philip Crang", Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London. Archived by the Internet Archive on 10 September 2004.
- ^ "'A new service society?': On the geographies of service employment", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ Philip Crang, "The Politics of Polyphony: Reconfigurations in Geographical Authority", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 10, no. 5 (1992), p. 527.
- ^ Philip Crang, "It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 12, no. 6 (1994), p. 675.
- ^ Geography Newsletter for Former Students, no. 11 (Department of Geography, University College London, Spring 2000), p. 2. His successor as Lecturer was James Neale.
- ^ J. R. Bryson, Peter Daniels, Jane Pollard, Nick Henry (eds.), Knowledge, Space, Economy (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), p. x.
- ^ "Departmental News & Events", Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London. Archived at the Internet Archive on 14 April 2005.
- ^ "New Academicians", Electronic Bulletin (Academy of Social Sciences, October 2012), p. 5.
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