Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography

The Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography is the name for the occupant of the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. It is named in honour of Alan Grant Ogilvie FRSE (1887–1954), the first professor (1931) of their Department of Geography and an important figure in the early years of the Department of Geography at Edinburgh, who had died in office.^[1]

List of Ogilvie Professors

• 1966–1986 John Terence Coppock
• 1990–2004 Susan J. Smith
• 2004–2010^[2] Lynn A. Staeheli
• 2010–2019 Charles Withers^[3]
• 2019–present Tim Cresswell

See also

• List of professorships at the University of Edinburgh

References

1. "A Short History of Geography in Edinburgh". www.geos.ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
2. "YouCitizen Research Team". YouCitizen. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
3. University of Edinburgh. "Professor Charles W. J. Withers". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 May 2019.