Denis Cosgrove

Denis Cosgrove
Born	Denis Edmund Cosgrove (1948-05-03)3 May 1948 Liverpool, England
Died	21 March 2008(2008-03-21) (aged 59) West Hollywood, California, U.S.
Nationality	British
Spouses	Isobel Thubron ​ ​ (m. 1970, divorced)​ Carmen Mills ​ (m. 1989)​
Children	3
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)
Thesis	Palladian Landscape: Geographical change and its cultural representations in 16th century Italy (1976)
Academic work
Discipline	Geography
Sub-discipline	Cultural Geography
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles Royal Holloway, University of London Loughborough University Oxford Polytechnic
Doctoral students	Professor 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)

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.^[1]