Ballot Archive

10 Dec 2020

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Alexander J. Kent

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BSc - Oxford Brookes University 1995-1998 MPhil - University of Cambridge 1998-1999 PhD - University of Kent 2004-7

Profession or occupation

Reader in Cartography and Geographic Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church University

Grounds for election

Dr Alexander J. Kent is Reader in Cartography and Geographic Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK), where he lectures in cartographic history and design and in European and political geography. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, particularly on the aesthetics of cartography and on topographic mapping. Recent books include The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (University of Chicago Press), the Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography and Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea (Springer Nature). Always seeking to advance the study of cartography and its history, Alex served as President of the British Cartographic Society (2015–2017) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Cartographic Journal, the Chair of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Topographic Mapping, and the Founding Chair of the ICA World Cartographic Forum.

Signatories

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