John Pickles#
| Membership Number: | 7326 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Affiliated section(s): | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://pickles.web.unc.edu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9088-9015 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 Daniel W. Patterson Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of International Studies and Geography
Fields of Scholarship
- History of mapping
- European border management
- Disciplinary history and philosophies of science
- Economic geography
- Post-socialist Europe
Honours and Awards
- SELECTED HONOURS
- 2017 International Advisory Board Member of the Bulgarian Geographical Society
- 2014 International Advisory Board Member, National University of Singapore Centre for Global Production Networks
- 2014 Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
- 2014 Nadácia VÚB Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Department of Public Administration and Regional Development, Faculty of National Economy, Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2011 International Geographical Union UN Year of Global Understanding Scientific Standing Committee
- 2010 Association of Bulgarian Geographers Lifetime Honorary Membership for service to Bulgarian Geography
- 2010 - 2018 Appointed Member, Katerva Viability Panel. Katerva Sustainability Institute
- 2001 Trieste Distinguished Fulbright Chair of Geography
- SELECTED INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL AWARDS/GRANTS
- 2010 - 2014 National Science Foundation, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (Geography and Spatial Sciences) Research Award. Neighbors and the New Geographies of Europe: Non-Accession Integration and the Changing Exercise of Sovereignty in the Euro-Med Region.
- 2009 - 2010 Department for International Development. Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading, Global Production Networks and Trade. Co-investigator. Brooks World Poverty Institute, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
- 2006 - 2011 National Science Foundation Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (Geography) Research Award "The Geographical Consequences of the End of Quota Constrained Trade in the Global Apparel Industry." PI: John Pickles Co-PI: Meenu Tewari (City and Regional Planning). Award Date: February 23, 2006. Award No. BCS-0551085
- 2001 - 2007 National Science Foundation. Reconfiguring Economies, Regions, and Communities: The Resurgence of Apparel Industries in Central and Eastern Europe (with Robert Begg and Adrian Smith)
- 1996 - 2000 National Science Foundation. Democratization, Regional Change, and Ethnicity in the Southern Balkans: The Case of the Rhodope Region of Bulgaria. Co-P.I. (with Robert Begg, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Mieke Meurs, American University).
- 1994 - 1995 National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator. Democratization and the Production of New Political Geographies in Bulgaria, 1989-1994. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Student: Caedmon Staddon. Co-Sponsored by the Division of Geography and Regional Science and the Division of International Programs
- 1991 - 1994 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace and International Cooperation Program. Co-Principal Investigator with B. Yarnal (Penn State), B. Koulov (American University), and K. Paskaleva (Virginia Tech).
- 1993 American Council of Learned Societies The Role of Friedrich Ratzel's Work in the Origins of Modern Geography. Grant to support research in Ratzel Archives, Munich and Leipzig
- 1987-1989 National Science Foundation. The Relationship Between Space and Social Process: The Spatial Constraints on the Reform of Apartheid in South Africa. Sole Principal Investigator
