John Pickles

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = John Pickles

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| nationality = British-American

| birth_place = Nelson, Lancashire, England

| alma_mater = Mansfield College, Oxford
University of Natal
Pennsylvania State University

| fields = geography, phenomenology, globalisation, critical cartography

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John Pickles (1952-) currently serves as the Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.{{cite book |title=The global idea of 'the commons' |last=Nonini |first=Donald Macon |page=137 |year=2007 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-84545-485-2 }} Pickles attended the University of Oxford, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Geography, with a minor in Geology, and a master's degree in geography. He later earned doctorate degrees from the University of Natal, South Africa, and the Pennsylvania State University, United States.

He joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 as the Earl N Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies and served as the Chair of the Department of Geography between 2007-2013.{{Cite web |title=Dr. John Pickles, D.W. Patterson Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Geography {{!}} Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |url=https://pickles.web.unc.edu/ |access-date=2025-02-12 |language=en-US}}  

Pickles has also held academic appointments at the universities of Kentucky, Minnesota, and West Virginia; at the Ohio State University; at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); and at Natal Pietermaritzburg and Trieste.{{Cite web |title=Pickles, John (1952-) |url=https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/geography/chpt/pickles-john-1952 |access-date=12 February 2025 |website=Encyclopedia of Geography}}

Pickles is a scholar in the areas of critical cartography, phenomenology, geography of media and communication and post-socialist spaces. He is the author of numerous books, including Phenomenology, Science, and Geography: Space and the Human Sciences, Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographical Information Systems, and A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.