Audrey Kobayashi
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Professor Audrey Kobayashi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 (age 74–75) British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupations | 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]
