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Professor Christopher Philo FBA

Headshot of Professor Christopher Philo FBA
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2025
Honours
FAcSS
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/christopherphilo/

Summary

Christopher Philo's research interests focus on history and theory of geographical inquiry; the Frankfurt School and the antifascist geographical imagination; historical geography of 'madness', asylums and psychiatry in Britain; and contested geographies of social difference.

Current post

School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow Professor of Geography

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