Professor Audrey Kobayashi | |
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Born | 1951 (age 71–72) British Columbia, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Professor, author |
Academic background | |
Education | Ph. D |
Alma mater | University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Geography |
Sub-discipline | Racial and gender studies |
Institutions | Queen's University |
Doctoral students | Katie Pickles |
Audrey Lynn Kobayashi FRSC (born 1951 in British Columbia) is a Canadian professor and author,specializing in geography,geopolitics,and racial and gender studies. She was the vice-president of the Canadian Association of Geographers from 1999 to 2000,and the president from 2000 to 2002. Kobayashi was also the vice-president of the American Association of Geographers in 2010,and president in 2011.
Kobayashi is currently a professor in the Department of Geography, [1] and a Queen's Research Chair, [2] at Queen's University.
Kobayashi earned her Bachelor of Arts in Geography at the University of British Columbia in 1976. Two years later,she received her Master of Arts at the same university. [3]
In 1983,after assisting in research at the Department of Geography at Kyoto University,she earned her Ph. D in Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles. [3]
From 2002 to 2010,Kobayashi edited the People,Place,and Region section of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers ,a bimonthly collection of journals from the association. [4]
In 2012,Kobayashi wrote "Neoclassical urban theory and the study of racism in geography",which was published in Urban Geography in 2014. [5]
In 2014,Kobayashi co-wrote "Colonizing Colonized:Sartre and Fanon" with Mark Boyle.
From 2013 to 2016,Kobayashi was a general editor for the human geography section of The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography . [6] [3]
She co-wrote two major books in 2017. The first being The Equity Myth:Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities with Carl James,Dua Enakshi,Frances Henry,Howard Ramos,Malinda Sharon Smith,and Peter Li. [7] The second is Continuity and Innovation:Canadian Families in the New Millennium with Amber Gazso. [8]
In 1995,Koyabashi won the national award of merit from the National Association of Japanese Canadians. [9]
In 1997,Kobayashi won the W.J. Barnes Award for Teaching Excellence for the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society at Queen's University. [10]
She has earned numerous awards from the American Association of Geographers including,the James Blaut Award in 2008, [11] the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, [12] and the Presidential Award in 2016. [13]
In September 2011,Kobayashi was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. [14]
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Editor, People Place and Region, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
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