Rachael Kohn
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Producer and Presenter of The Spirit of Things and The Ark on Radio National. Dr Rachael Kohn has recently been awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of New South Wales for ‘services to the community … fostering religious understanding’ through her broadcasts, public speaking and book, The New Believers: Re-imagining God, HarperCollins 2003.Born in Canada, she graduated with a PhD in Religious Studies from McMaster University and was awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship, which she took up at the University of Lancaster, England.
Before joining the ABC in 1992, she taught Religious Studies at Sydney University and in universities in England and Canada. Rachael has won three Gold World Medals from the New York Festivals International Radio Competition. She has produced documentaries for ABC TV’s Compass:‘The Dead Sea Scrolls’, ‘Buddhism East and West’, and ‘Paws for Thought’ (the spirituality of animals).