Kevin R. Cox

Kevin R. Cox is a British-American geographer (born in Warwick, England in 1939), who holds the position of Distinguished University Professor, in the Department of Geography, of The Ohio State University 
Biography.
He holds a BA degree from Cambridge University (1961) and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1966), and has since then taught at Ohio State. He is commonly seen as a political geographer.
Work.
He was initially prominent in the revival of geographic studies of voting. Drawing on the methods of the spatial-quantitative research, he demonstrated the significance of where people live and their connections over space for how they vote. This in turn led to an interest in a newly emerging field of behavioral geography.
Most of his later work has been focused on urban studies, inspired by various forms of political economy, particularly from welfare geography. One of his contributions was work on resident organizations, establishing their raison d'être and situating them historically. This was followed by an increasing emphasis on the implications of Marxism for studying the politics of urbanization. He has been interested in the role of growth coalitions in the politics of local development and how the American politics contrasts with that of the countries of Western Europe. He has also worked on the history of geographic thought and the political geography of South Africa.
He has been a recipient of the Honors Award (1985) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2012) of the Association of American Geographers. He has been a Guggenheim Scholar (2001). At Ohio State he received the Distinguished Scholar Award (1997) and is currently Distinguished University Professor (2003).'
A festschrift was published in his honor in 2012.
Publications.
His books are: 
Some of his key peer-reviewed publications include: