Held a Visiting Research Chair at KSU fall 2015, funded by a Canada Scholar Award from the Fulbright Canada Foundation.

Fulbright Canada Scholar Visiting Research Chair at Kennesaw State University

Award recognizing teaching excellence in the social sciences; nominated by students.

J.E.A. Crake Teaching Award, Social Sciences, Mount Allison University

Received CMHC's HSAA for my doctoral research on gender and condominium development.

National Housing Studies Achievement Award

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environment, Mount Allison University

From toxic wreck to crunchy chic: Environmental gentrification through the 	body

Rhythms of gentrification: Eventfulness and slow violence in a happening neighbourhood

Urban Canada

Gender in an Urban World

Key Thinkers on the City

Mount a Teaches

Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship

Leslie Kern received her PhD in Women’s Studies from York University in 2008 for her work on gender and condominium development in Toronto. My research focuses on gentrification in North American cities, exploring issues such as embodiment, gendered labour conditions, and environmental and human health using feminist urban theory. Other research interests include feminist methodologies, especially collective biography and online research methods. Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, I teach courses on urban social geography, gender and the city, and gender, race, and environmental justice. I am also the Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Mount Allison. I was a founding organizer of the Feminist Geography Conference at University of Nebraska Omaha in 2014. In fall of 2015 I was a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Department of Geography & Anthropology at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Gentrification/Displacement

Gender

Cities

Urban Affairs

Enviromental Justice

Feminism

Geography

Condominiums

Housing and Society

Toronto

English

Urban Crossings

How yoga studios can impact the cultural landscape of a city

Clean bodies/clean city: Environmental gentrification in the Junction

Feminist pathways through the planetary urban

Bodies out of place: Gentrification discourse in Toronto

Resisting environmental gentrification: Working 	towards sustainability and justice in urban neighbourhoods

Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program

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