Professor Audrey Kobayashi | |
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Born | 1951 (age 72–73) 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.