1. Denis Edmund Cosgrove was a British cultural geographer.
14 Facts About Denis Cosgrove
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Denis Cosgrove 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.
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Geography was a subject Denis 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.
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Denis Cosgrove won an open scholarship to read geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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Denis Cosgrove graduated in 1969, going on to complete an MA in geography at the University of Toronto.
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In 1970, Denis Cosgrove married Isobel Thubron; they had two daughters and later divorced.
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Denis Cosgrove remained at Oxford Polytechnic until 1980, rising to be principal lecturer.
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Denis Cosgrove 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.
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Denis Cosgrove was appointed Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000, remaining a visiting professor at Royal Holloway, University of London until his death.
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Denis Cosgrove was about to become chairman of the geography department at UCLA, when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2006.
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Denis Cosgrove died of cancer at his home West Hollywood, California, on 21 March 2008, at the age of 59.
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Denis Cosgrove's 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.
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Denis Cosgrove has written extensively on theory in cultural geography and edited for six years the journal Ecumene which publishes cross-disciplinary work on environment, culture and meaning.
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In February 2008, Denis Cosgrove was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tallinn University.