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Jeremy W. Crampton
Professor of Geography
Director, Committee on Social Theory

I was born in Ghana (Dormaa Ahenkro to be precise) but spent most of my childhood almost directly due north and 3,000 miles away in Cheshire and Shropshire along the Welsh borders.

Following my undergraduate education at Liverpool University, I studied at Penn State, getting my PhD in Geography in 1994 under the supervision of Roger Downs.

I've held positions at Portsmouth University (UK), George Mason University, and Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. I came to Kentucky in 2011 as Associate Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 2016. Also in 2016 I was appointed Director of the Committee on Social Theory.

Contact Information
jcrampton@uky.edu
867 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-4377
Education
Ph.D The Pennsylvania State University, 1994. Geography.
Research Interests
  • Critical cartography & GIS
  • Geographical intelligence
  • Geoweb and new spatial media
  • geosurveillance
  • history of geographic thought
  • Michel Foucault
  • New Maps