Alan Reginald Harold Baker, FBA (born 1938) is a British geographer. He has been a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1970. Having graduated from the University of London with a BA in 1960 and a PhD in 1963, he was a lecturer at the University of London (1963–66) and then the University of Cambridge (1966–2001). He was head of the Department of Geography at Cambridge from 1989 to 1994.[1][2] He was Editor of the Journal of Historical Geography (1987-96) and Co-editor of 44 books in the Cambridge University Press' series Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (1980-2005).
Baker was appointed a chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms in 1997,[3] was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award in 1974 and its Founders Medal in 2009,[4] and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2010.[5] He was the subject of a festschrift: Iain S. Black and R. A. Butlin (eds), Place, Culture and Identity: Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R. H. Baker (Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001).
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- ^ "Medals and Awards", Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
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