Faculty Details

Kevin R. Cox
Address: 1106 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-7948
Email: cox.13@osu.edu
Current CV: Download (PDF)
Personal Webpage: http://www.geography.osu.edu/faculty/kcox
Interests: Political Geography, Geographic Thought, Marx

Current Research: I am a political geographer with strong interests in the politics of local and regional development, the city, the history of geographic thought, and South Africa. I am particularly interested in pursuing these topics using a Marxist framework of understanding.

Courses Taught:
International Studies 356-Globalization Geography 450-The Making of the Modern World
Geography 460-Political Geography
Geography 660-Urban Political Geography:"Conflict, Power and Politics in the City"
Geography 882-The Development of Geographic Thought
Geography 860.01-Seminar on Theory of Political Geography: "An Introduction to Marxist Geography"

Select Publications:
Cox, K.R., 2011. From the new urban politics to the new metropolitan politics. Urban Studies.

Cox, K R., 2011. Institutions of Local and Regional Development. Chapter 23 in A Pike, A Rodrigues-Pose and J Tomaney (eds.), A Handbook of Local and Regional Development.Routledge.

Cox K R., and R. Negi, 2010. The state and the question of development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Review of African Political Economy.

Cox, K.R., 2010. The problem of metropolitan governance and the politics of scale. Regional Studies.

Cox K.R., 2009. ‘Rescaling the State' in question. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.