Fellows & Staff

Professor Colin Clarke

MA, DPhil, DLitt Emeritus Fellow, formerly Senior Research Fellow in Geography

Academic Background

MA, DPhil, both at Jesus College, Oxford
Leverhulme Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool (1964-66)
Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in Geography and Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool (1966-77)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Toronto (1967-68)
Reader in Geography and Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool (1977-81)
Lecturer in Urban and Social Geography, Oxford University and Official Fellow of Jesus College (1981-97)
Professor of Urban and Social Geography, Oxford University (1997-2003)
Head of the School of Geography and the Environment (1998-2002)
Emeritus Professor of Geography (2003-)
Gold Medalist of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (1999)

Postgraduate Teaching

MSc and DPhil for Geography students.

Research Interests

Latin America and the Caribbean; urbanization, ethnicity, peasantries, small states. Racist regimes - slavery in the Caribbean and the holocaust in Europe.

Hobbies and Other Information

Theatre, cinema, opera, music, wine, travel, reading, all interests which I share with my wife, Gillian.

Chairman, Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) 1978-80
President, European Association for Research on Central America and the Caribbean (1987-89)
President, Society for Latin American Studies (1995-97)