Tim Cresswell

Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests center on the role of geographical ways of thinking in the constitution of social and cultural life both historically and in the present day western world. He is the author of five books including, most recently Maxwell Street" Writing and Thinking Place (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell, 2013) and On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (Routledge, 2006). He has also co-edited four volumes on place and mobility including Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects (Ashgate, 2011) Cresswell is also a poet and he explores similar themes in his debut collection Soil (Penned in the Margins, 2013).

Prior to arriving at Edinburgh, Cresswell worked at Trinity College, Connecticut, the Department of History at Northeastern University in Boston (2013-2016), the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London (2006-2013), University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1999-2006) and University of Wales, Lampeter (1993-1999). He is a managing editor of the journal GeoHumanities.