Kevin S Fox

Kevin S. Fox is a cultural geographer and educator with over two decades of international teaching experience. He has taught AP Human Geography, IB Geography, AP Environmental Science, and other courses in schools across the United States, Austria, Switzerland, Tanzania, and Bolivia. His teaching emphasizes inquiry-driven learning, field-based education, and interdisciplinary curriculum design, all grounded in a commitment to nurturing global awareness and critical spatial thinking.

Kevin earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Connecticut and later completed a Master of Arts in geography at Ohio University. His academic background bridges the social sciences and the humanities, and his professional life reflects a strong dedication to connecting geographic literacy with real-world understanding through storytelling, fieldwork, and civic engagement.

He is the founder and director of The Geographical Imaginations Expedition & Institute, a multimedia public geography initiative that explores how individuals and communities make sense of their worlds. Through its podcast and educational programming, the project invites diverse publics into conversations about place, identity, and imagination. Kevin has written, produced, and hosted over 60 episodes of the Geographical Imaginations radio series, each designed as an “expedition into the geographies of everything and nothing.”

Beyond the classroom and studio, Kevin has worked in cartography, information design, and community development. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay, where he led sustainable beekeeping and rural entrepreneurship projects. He has also collaborated with organizations such as National Geographic—where he was a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow—and presented his work at conferences, museums, and cultural institutions in more than eight countries.

Fluent in English and Spanish, Kevin brings a blend of cultural fluency, pedagogical creativity, and strategic vision to his roles in education and cultural leadership. His work continues to center on the transformative potential of geography to connect people, stories, and landscapes.

Teaching Philosophy & Approach

Inquiry is at the core of what we do in the classroom. I encourage students to ask questions and disentangle the threads that help us produce knowledge about the world. I ask students the big questions first. Then, very much like in a labyrinth, after glimpsing the end goal in the center, we get tossed back out into the aether. Along the way we employ what Vygotsky called tools of the mind and do the work to get back to the center, to that question, where we started. Only now with new eyes from all of our explorations.

Inside this labyrinth the scaffolds we use are dialogues about texts brought into the classroom space. We build a lexicon—starting first with key words and concepts—that has its own vocabulary and grammar. We work with photographs, maps, paintings, literature, academic writing and news articles brought into conversation through both new and old technologies. Students make connections between these texts they had never thought to connect before—new mappings designed from their interactions in this world of ideas.

As a trained cultural geographer and cartographer I can’t help but see the classroom as a space—one that is dynamic and full of possibility. Students should feel comfortable in this space and realize they can achieve great things through inquiry and scholarship and gain the confidence to take a chance to see what the pursuit of knowledge can give back to them in return. They can learn that they, too, can contribute to this pursuit and shape this space. We learn that mapping has both practical and metaphorical applications. Ideally, students produce their own maps and become cartographers of their own trajectories.

Teaching and learning have been at the center of what I do. I have taught at multiple levels—middle school, high school, college, university and in adult education—and have taught different subjects—geography, cartography, history, Spanish, English, and beekeeping. Learning is about inquiry, about knowing how to ask questions and how to explore them through a range of methodologies and through a wide variety of lenses. As a life-long learner I bring my own curiosities to the table to help students understand processes and develop their own scholarly practices.

My students can learn how to find the universal and how to locate their own lives in the various cartographies of the world.

“As a life-long learner I bring my own curiosities to the table to help students understand processes and develop their own scholarly practices.”

Teaching Level:
  • Middle
  • High School
Teaching Type:
  • Tutoring
  • Learning Coach
  • Full-Semester Classes
  • Full-Year Classes
  • Partial Year Classes (Mini Courses)
Teaching Subjects:
  • U.S. History
  • World History
  • Geography
  • Spanish

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