Denis Wood
Denis Wood is an artist, author, cartographer and a former professor of
Design at
North Carolina State University. Born in 1945, Wood grew up in
Cleveland, Ohio, receiving a BA in English (in 1967) from then Western Reserve University (now
Case Western Reserve University). He received an MA (in 1971) and a PhD (in 1973) in geography from
Clark University, in
Worcester, Massachusetts. Wood taught
environmental psychology,
landscape history, and design in then School of Design (now College of Design) at North Carolina State University from 1974 through 1996, living and raising his family in
Boylan Heights. Beginning in 1996, Wood spent over two years in prison on a conviction for molesting a teenage boy.
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