curriculum vitae

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl – cv

Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair (2012-2015)

Assistant Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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Research Interests

My research is concerned with social inclusion and social justice in the city. I examine the social and spatial processes that constitute and shape cities, and I study the relationship between space and place and subjectivity formation.

My research interests are located in the following areas:

Geographies of social difference (with an emphasis on gender and sexuality)
Feminist and queer theory
Interdisciplinary studies of oral history and public memory
Uneven urban development
Critical planning praxis

Academic positions

Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge (2008-2013)

Department of Women & Gender Studies

Associate Member, Department of Geography

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College (2007-08)

Department of Geography

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Community Faculty Member, Metropolitan State University (2005-07)

Faculty of Social Sciences

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Instructor, University of Minnesota (2001-08)

-Composition Program, Department of English

-Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

-Department of Geography

-Master in Liberal Arts Program

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2008

Contested Spaces of Women’s Sport (download the dissertation here)

Supervisors: George Henderson and Larry Knopp

Dissertation committee: Karen Till (Geography), Richa Nagar (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies), and Doug Hartmann (Sociology)

M. Public Policy, University of Minnesota, 2002

Icy Contests: Intersections of Gender, Geography, and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota’s Ridder Arena for Women’s Hockey

Thesis advisor: Maria Hanratty (Public Affairs)

Thesis committee: John S. Adams (Geography) and Karen E. Till (Geography)

B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994

Areas of emphasis: History, Women’s Studies

Peer-reviewed Publications

Journal Articles

2013. Ordinary (small) cities and LGBQ lives. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 12, 279-304. Download the article here

2011. Politics ‘out of place’? Making sense of conflict in sport spaces. Leisure/Loisir: The Journal of the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies, 35, 153-171. View abstract here

2011. Lesbian visibility and the politics of covering in women’s basketball game spaces. Leisure Studies, 30, 139-156. View abstract here

2009. ‘Family-Friendly’ without the double entendre: A spatial analysis of normative game spaces and lesbian fans. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13, 291-305. View abstract here

Muller, T. 2007. ‘Lesbian community’ in WNBA spaces. Social & Cultural Geography, 8, 9-27. View abstract here

Muller, T. 2007. Liberty for all? Contested spaces of women’s basketball. Gender, Place and Culture, 14, 197-214. View abstract here

Book Chapters

2011. “Queerying creative cities” in P. Doan, Ed. Queerying Planning: Challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practice, pp. 157-167. Surrey, UK: Ashgate. Publisher’s page

2010. “Producing gender-normative spaces in U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer” in S. Frank & S. Steets, Eds. Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment, pp. 195-212. London: Routledge. Invited chapter. Publisher’s page

Muller, T. 2006. “Contested terrain of the WNBA arena” in C. Aitchison, Ed. Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities, pp. 37-52. London and New York: Routledge.

Muller, T. & Shelley, F. M. 2006. “Gender, sport and geographic education” in F. M. Shelley & L. DeChano, Eds. The Geography-Sports Connection: Using Sports to Teach Geography, pp. 103-113. Pathways series, 33. Washington, D.C.: National Council for Geographic Education.

Select Book Reviews

2010. Review of Regina Kunzel. 2008. Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Environment & Planning D: Society and Space, 28, 184-185. Invited review.

Muller, T., Oswin, N., Elder, G., & Halberstam, J. 2007. Author Meets Critics: A Critical Engagement with Judith Halberstam’s In a Queer Time and Place. 2005. Social & Cultural Geography, 8, 929-938.

Muller, T. 2006. Review of Vertinsky, P. & J. Bale, (Eds). 2004. Sites of Sport: Space, place, experience. Gender, Place and Culture, 13, 99-100.

Select Funding

2012, University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts & Science Study Leave Award
2011, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant
2011, University of Lethbridge CREDO Grant
2011, University of Lethbridge Internal SSHRC Grant
2011, University of Lethbridge Research Fund
2005-06, Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Research Fellowship in Women’s Studies
2004-05, University of Minnesota Darrell Haug Davis Dissertation Fellowship

Select Conference Participation

Including paper presentations, panel discussant, and session organizer

Association of American Geographers (participated annually since 2003)
Canadian Association of Geographers (participated in 2002, 2003, 2010, 2012)
II European Geographies of Sexualities (participated in 2013)
International Conference of Critical Geography (participated in 2011)
National Women’s Studies Association (participated in 2009)
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (participated in 2003, 2004)
Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (participated in 2004, 2011)
Women and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (participated in 2012)

Select Professional Service

Geographic Perspectives on Women (Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers)

Past-Chair (2012-14)
Chair (2011-12)
Vice-Chair (2010-11)
Secretary (2008-10)

Qualitative Methods (Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers)

Secretary (2012-14)
Board Member (2010-12)
Reviewer, Student Research Grant Competition (2008, 2012)

Sexuality & Space (Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers)

Co-Chair (2006-08)
Secretary (2003-06)

Select peer reviews

Ashgate (Human Geography)
Environment & Planning D: Society & Space
Gender, Place and Culture
Journal of Lesbian Studies
The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl – cv

Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair (2012-2015)

Assistant Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Research Interests

My research is concerned with social inclusion and social justice in the city. I examine the social and spatial processes that constitute and shape cities, and I study the relationship between space and place and subjectivity formation.

My research interests are located in the following areas:

Geographies of social difference (with an emphasis on gender and sexuality)

Feminist and queer theory

Interdisciplinary studies of oral history and public memory

Uneven urban development

Critical planning praxis

Academic positions

Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge (2008-2013)

Department of Women & Gender Studies

Associate Member, Department of Geography

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College (2007-08)

Department of Geography

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Community Faculty Member, Metropolitan State University (2005-07)

Faculty of Social Sciences

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Instructor, University of Minnesota (2001-08)

-Composition Program, Department of English

-Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

-Department of Geography

-Master in Liberal Arts Program

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2008

Contested Spaces of Women’s Sport (download the dissertation here)

Supervisors: George Henderson and Larry Knopp

Dissertation committee: Karen Till (Geography), Richa Nagar (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies), and Doug Hartmann (Sociology)

M. Public Policy, University of Minnesota, 2002

Icy Contests: Intersections of Gender, Geography, and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota’s Ridder Arena for Women’s Hockey

Thesis advisor: Maria Hanratty (Public Affairs)

Thesis committee: John S. Adams (Geography) and Karen E. Till (Geography)

B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994

Areas of emphasis: History, Women’s Studies

Peer-reviewed Publications

Journal Articles

2013. Ordinary (small) cities and LGBQ lives. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 12, 279-304. Download the article here

2011. Politics ‘out of place’? Making sense of conflict in sport spaces. Leisure/Loisir: The Journal of the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies, 35, 153-171. View abstract here

2011. Lesbian visibility and the politics of covering in women’s basketball game spaces. Leisure Studies, 30, 139-156. View abstract here

2009. ‘Family-Friendly’ without the double entendre: A spatial analysis of normative game spaces and lesbian fans. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13, 291-305. View abstract here

Muller, T. 2007. ‘Lesbian community’ in WNBA spaces. Social & Cultural Geography, 8, 9-27. View abstract here

Muller, T. 2007. Liberty for all? Contested spaces of women’s basketball. Gender, Place and Culture, 14, 197-214. View abstract here

Book Chapters

2011. “Queerying creative cities” in P. Doan, Ed. Queerying Planning: Challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practice, pp. 157-167. Surrey, UK: Ashgate. Publisher’s page

2010. “Producing gender-normative spaces in U.S. Women’s Professional Soccer” in S. Frank & S. Steets, Eds. Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment, pp. 195-212. London: Routledge. Invited chapter. Publisher’s page

Muller, T. 2006. “Contested terrain of the WNBA arena” in C. Aitchison, Ed. Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities, pp. 37-52. London and New York: Routledge.

Muller, T. & Shelley, F. M. 2006. “Gender, sport and geographic education” in F. M. Shelley & L. DeChano, Eds. The Geography-Sports Connection: Using Sports to Teach Geography, pp. 103-113. Pathways series, 33. Washington, D.C.: National Council for Geographic Education.

Select Book Reviews

2010. Review of Regina Kunzel. 2008. Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Environment & Planning D: Society and Space, 28, 184-185. Invited review.

Muller, T., Oswin, N., Elder, G., & Halberstam, J. 2007. Author Meets Critics: A Critical Engagement with Judith Halberstam’s In a Queer Time and Place. 2005. Social & Cultural Geography, 8, 929-938.

Muller, T. 2006. Review of Vertinsky, P. & J. Bale, (Eds). 2004. Sites of Sport: Space, place, experience. Gender, Place and Culture, 13, 99-100.

Select Funding

2012, University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts & Science Study Leave Award

Select Conference Participation

Including paper presentations, panel discussant, and session organizer

Association of American Geographers (participated annually since 2003)

Canadian Association of Geographers (participated in 2002, 2003, 2010, 2012)

II European Geographies of Sexualities (participated in 2013)

International Conference of Critical Geography (participated in 2011)

National Women’s Studies Association (participated in 2009)

North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (participated in 2003, 2004)

Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (participated in 2004, 2011)

Women and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (participated in 2012)

Select Professional Service

Geographic Perspectives on Women (Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers)

Past-Chair (2012-14)

Chair (2011-12)

Vice-Chair (2010-11)

Secretary (2008-10)

Qualitative Methods (Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers)

Secretary (2012-14)

Board Member (2010-12)

Reviewer, Student Research Grant Competition (2008, 2012)