Ruth B. Fincher is a leader in the field of feminist geography and urban geography.
Education
She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne, her masters degree in geography at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and her Doctor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Massachusetts, United States, in 1979 ("The local state and the urban built environment: the case of Boston in late capitalism").
Career
She is Foundation Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Fincher was raised in Western Victoria, Australia. She taught geography at McGill University and McMaster University before joining the University of Melbourne in the 1980s.
In the early 1990s she took a secondment as Manager of Research at the federal government’s Bureau of Immigration Research.
At the University of Melbourne she was Director of the Australia Centre, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (2003-2006) and Professor of Urban Planning (1997-2006), before becoming Foundation Chair of Geography in 2006. From 2012-2014 she served as President of the Academic Board of the University.
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