{"id":31089,"date":"2024-09-24T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=31089"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:16","slug":"in-memoriam-professor-emeritus-john-tunbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2024\/in-memoriam-professor-emeritus-john-tunbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus John Tunbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus John Tunbridge\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies mourns the passing of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">John Tunbridge<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">John <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">was<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\"> a graduate of St. John\u2019s College<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\"> (1964)<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">, Cambridge <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">(1968) <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">and received his Ph.D. from Bristol University<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\"> (1971)<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">. He joined Carleton in 1969 and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">undertook<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\"> visiting teaching commitments in Australia, the UK and South Africa. He <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">co-authored<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\"> The Tourist-Historic City (Elsevier, London, 2000) and Dissonant Heritage (<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">Wiley, Chichester<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">,<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">1996)<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/John-Tunbridge\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">His <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">research concerned the various dimensions of the geography of heritage.<\/span><\/a> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">John retired from the department July 1<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW153638177 BCX0\" data-fontsize=\"11\">st<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">, 2008. The funeral is a private service, to be held at Cole Funeral Service at Pinecrest Cemetery on 27 September 2024.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/colefuneralservices.com\/tribute\/details\/9337\/John-Tunbridge\/obituary.html#tribute-start\">John&#8217;s<\/a><\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153638177 BCX0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/colefuneralservices.com\/tribute\/details\/9337\/John-Tunbridge\/obituary.html#tribute-start\"> obituary and funeral details<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies mourns the passing of John Tunbridge. John was a graduate of St. John\u2019s College (1964), Cambridge (1968) and received his Ph.D. from Bristol University (1971). He joined Carleton in 1969 and undertook visiting teaching commitments in Australia, the UK and South Africa. He co-authored The Tourist-Historic City (Elsevier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"inspiration-cloud"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31103,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31089\/revisions\/31103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}