Denis Wood
Denis Wood is one of America’s best-loved experts on the significance and meaning of maps. Wood loves maps and loves to talk about them. Besides Seeing Through Maps, Wood is the author of the best-selling The Power of Maps. He also curated the award-winning exhibition of maps at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in 1992, and its even more popular incarnation at the Smithsonian in Washington the year after. he taught environmental psychology and landscape history for nearly a quarter of a century in the School of Design at North Carolina State University. During the ’90s he was simultaneously a visiting professor at Duke University.