Alexander James Kent
Alexander J. Kent | |
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| Born | Alexander James Kent 24 August 1977 Dover, England |
| Nationality | British |
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| Alma mater | Oxford Brookes University Queens' College, Cambridge University of Kent |
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| Discipline | Geography |
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Alexander James Kent FBCartS FRGS FRSA FSA SFHEA (born 24 August 1977) is a British cartographer, geographer and academic, currently serving as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association. He leads the Coastal Connections Project for World Monuments Fund and English Heritage and is honorary Reader in Cartography and Geographical Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) and also a senior research associate of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford.
From 2015 to 2017, Kent served as president of the British Cartographic Society and has held fellowships of the Royal Geographical Society since 2006 and of the British Cartographic Society since 2002. In 2020, he became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a senior fellow of the (UK) Higher Education Academy and in 2022, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Kent's scholarly contributions have focused upon cartographic aesthetics and topographic mapping, particularly Soviet maps, which led to the publication of The Red Atlas in 2017 (University of Chicago Press). Co-authored with John Davies, the book provided the first general guide to Soviet military mapping - the world's most comprehensive cartographic project of the twentieth century.