Audrey Lynn KobayashiFRSC (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.
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]
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]
Awards
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]
↑"Audrey Kobayashi". Landscapes of Injustice. Retrieved 15 December 2017. Editor, People Place and Region, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
↑"NAJC Awards". National Association of Japanese Canadians. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017. Audrey Kobayashi (1995)
↑Berg, Lawrence (2 November 2014). "Nominations Open for James Blaut Award". The Mail Archive. Retrieved 14 December 2017. Previous recipients are ... Audrey Kobayashi
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