Gertrude Joch Robinson

Gertrude Joch Robinson (born 1927) is a Canadian communication scholar. She is emeritus professor at McGill University.

Life Gertrude Joch was born in Hamburg on November 15, 1927. Her father Frederick W. Joch was a shipowner, originally from Munich, and her mother Sarah Blaisdell was an American originally from Chicago. The family was bilingual, listened to BBC radio broadcasts, and avoided enrolling the girls in German youth organizations.

Robinson was the first director of the Communications Ph.D. program at McGill University.

Works Books Tito’s maverick media: The politics of mass communications in Yugoslavia. University of Illinois Press, 1977. Women, communication, and careers. Norlin, 1980. Gender, journalism and equity: Canadian, US and European perspectives. Hampton Press, 2005.

Selected articles '"Here be dragons": Problems in charting the U.S. history of communication studies'. Communication, 10, 1988, 97–119. 'Monopolies of knowledge in Canadian communication studies: The case of feminist approaches'. Canadian Journal of Communication, 23(1), 1998, 62–72.