Gertrude Joch Robinson (born 1927) is a Canadian communication scholar.
[1] 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.
[2] Robinson was the first director of the Communications Ph.D. program at McGill University.