Denis Cosgrove
is currently Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at UCLA. A contributor over two decades to thinking and research in cultural geography and landscape studies, his books include Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (1984, 1998), The Iconography of Landscape (1988), The Palladian Landscape (1993) and Mappings (1999). Denis Cosgrove has taught at universities in Britain, the United States and Canada and in recent years has extended his concern for the role of vision in environmental and spatial relations to studies of cartographic and photographic images of the globe and whole earth. His book Apollo's Eye: a genealogy of the globe in the western imagination will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in early 2001.