{"id":30,"date":"2015-03-30T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:37:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"word-wrap: normal; hyphens: none; -moz-hyphens: none; -ms-hyphens: none; -webkit-hyphens: none;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/files\/2015\/03\/WesternFront.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/files\/2015\/03\/WesternFront-96x300.jpg\" alt=\"WesternFront\" width=\"106\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/files\/2015\/03\/WesternFront-96x300.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/files\/2015\/03\/WesternFront.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a><strong>Post-Secondary Education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1984 Ph.D. UBC, Geography<br \/>\n1980 MA UBC, Geography<br \/>\n1977 B.Sc. University of Toronto, Psychology<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Academic Appointments<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1984-86 Assistant Professor Clark University<br \/>\n1986-89 Assistant Professor UBC<br \/>\n1989-95 Associate Professor UBC<br \/>\n1995-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professor UBC<br \/>\n2010-15 Associate Dean, Faculty and Equity UBC<br \/>\n2019- \u00a0 \u00a0Head of Geography Department<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Academic Awards<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cag-acg.ca\/en\/geraldine_pratt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Association of Geographers\u2019 Award for Scholarly Distinction<\/a><br \/>\n2007 Killam Graduate Mentoring Award<br \/>\n2010 Sam Black Award for Education and Development in the Visual and Performing Arts<br \/>\n2011 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada<br \/>\n2014 Honorary Doctorate, University of Oslo<br \/>\n2015- \u00a0Canada Research Chair, Care Economies and Global Labour<br \/>\n2019 Jacob Biely Research Prize<br \/>\n2023 American Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-Secondary Education 1984 Ph.D. UBC, Geography 1980 MA UBC, Geography 1977 B.Sc. University of Toronto, Psychology Academic Appointments 1984-86 Assistant Professor Clark University 1986-89 Assistant Professor UBC 1989-95 Associate Professor UBC 1995-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professor UBC 2010-15 Associate Dean, Faculty and Equity UBC 2019- \u00a0 \u00a0Head of Geography Department Academic Awards 2006 Canadian Association of Geographers\u2019 Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28914,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}