Philip Crang

Philip Andrew Crang is a British cultural and human geographer. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Life

Education and career

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

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

• (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).