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He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1991 with a first-class degree in the Geographical Tripos and gained a PhD from the University of Bristol. He began working at the University of Durham as a Lecturer in 1994, becoming a Professor in 2011. [2]
Crang is the co-editor of two academic journals: Tourist Studies and Time & Society. He has also published several books on the topics of cultural geography, most notably Thinking Space, which he co-wrote with Nigel Thrift (2000) and Cultural Geography (1998). Crang is also the current chair of the Royal Geographical Society's social and cultural research group. He was a senior editor of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography and co-editor of the Sage Encyclopaedia of Urban Studies.
As of October 2020, he has 81 publications. [3] Among his most cited include Picturing practices: research through the tourist gaze in Progress in Human Geography (1997).
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