Lifetime achievement award for Napton and Warwick old boy

Kevin Cox has been given the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Lifetime Achievement Honours Award for 2012.

Prof Cox is an internationally recognised expert in how geography affects people, including politics, voting patterns and human behaviour.

He is also recognised for his work in the politics of urbanisation and globalisation.

The AAG said his “superlative care and mentoring of graduate students” has influenced several generations of geographers who have held senior academic positions in the US, South Korea, Singapore, South Africa, India, Canada and Britain.

After Warwick School he gained a degree at Cambridge University in 1961 and later degrees at the University of Illinois in the US.

The academic married an American, has two children, and is a professor of geography at Ohio State University.

He is also the author of 13 books in his field, has contributed to other books and written articles for magazines.

His cousin is Leamington historian and author Jacqueline Cameron, of Warwick New Road. She said Prof Cox will return to his old stamping grounds in April for a celebration lunch for Warwick School old boys who were there in 1952-53.

It is part of the school’s celebrations marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

His cousin added: “Kevin pulls up the Courier website every week to keep up with our news.”