LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology

LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology

Dydia DeLyser

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6172 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: dydia@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1998.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural Geography
Historical Geography
Qualitative Methods
Social Theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
DeLyser, Dydia, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

DeLyser, Dydia, Andrew Curtis, and Rebecca Sheehan, 2004, "Using E-Bay for Research in Historical Geography," Journal of Historical Geography.

DeLyser, Dydia, 2004, "Recovering Social Memories of the Past: The 1884 Novel Ramona and Tourist Practices," Social and Cultural Geography 5(3):483-496 (special issue on Social Memory edited by Steve Hoelscher, Owen Dwyer and Derek Alderman).

DeLyser, Dydia, 2003, "Ramona Memories: Fiction, Tourist Practices, and Placing the Past in Southern California," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(4):886-908.

Bradshaw, Michael, George White and Joe Dymond with Dydia DeLyser, Contemporary World Regional Geography: Global Connections, Local Voices. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

DeLyser, Dydia, 2001, " 'Do You Really Live Here?' Thoughts on Insider Research," Geographical Review 91(1 and 2):441-453.

DeLyser, Dydia, 2001, "When Less is More: Absence and Social Memory in a California Ghost Town," in Paul Adams, Steven Hoelscher and Karen Till, eds., Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies. University of Minnesota Press, 24-40.

DeLyser, Dydia, 1999, "Authenticity on the Ground: Engaging the Past in a California Ghost Town," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89(4): 602-632.

SUPPORTED RESEARCH
1999. Ahmanson Short-Term Research Fellowship. $3,000.

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2004-present. Editorial Board Member, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
2004. Phi Kappa Phi Award for Outstanding Untenured Faculty Member in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
2003. BP Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.
1999-2002. Editorial Board Member, Geographical Review.
1999-present. Co-Editor, Historical Geography.

COURSES TAUGHT
Human Geography: Europe and the Americas
Cultural Geography
Urban Geography
Advanced Qualitative Methods
Social Science Writing
(Graduate seminars in cultural geography)

Department of Geography & Anthropology
Louisiana State University
227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105
Phone: (225) 578-5942
Fax: (225) 578-4420

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