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.

Education

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]

Works

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]

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]

In September 2011, Kobayashi was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada.^[14]