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Dydia DeLyser

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Associate Professor and
B.A. Undergraduate Advisor
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

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1998.

INTERESTS

Cultural Geography
Feminist Geography
Social Theory
Qualitative Research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Single-authored books and monographs:

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

Scholarly edited volumes:

Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin, and Douglas Richardson,  eds., Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities London: Routledge, 2011. 30 chapters.

DeLyser, Dydia, Steve Herbert, Stuart Aitken, Mike Crang, and Linda McDowell, Handbook of Qualitative Geography London: Sage Publications, 2010. 23 Chapters.
Refereed journal articles and book chapters:

DeLyser, Dydia, “Participatory Historical Geography? Shaping and Failing to Shape Social Memory at an Oklahoma Memorial,” in Denis Cosgrove, Douglas Richardson, Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, and J. Nicholas Entrikin, eds.,  Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 177-187.

DeLyser, Dydia, “ ‘The engine sang an even song. Rhythm and mobilities among early women aviators” in Tim Edensor, editor, Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies, London: Ashgate, 2010, pp. 145-155.

DeLyser, Dydia, “Feminisms and mobilities: Crusading for aviation in the 1920s,” in Tim Cresswell and Peter Meriman, eds., Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects London: Ashgate, 2010, pp. 83-98.

DeLyser, Dydia “Mapping Tourism in Southern California,” in Glen Creason, Los Angeles in Maps (New York: Rizzoli, under contract; publication expected 2010).

DeLyser, Dydia, and Bethany Rogers, “Meaning and Methods in Cultural Geography: Practicing the Scholarship of Teaching,” Cultural Geographies (accepted for publication, forthcoming 2010).

DeLyser, Dydia, “Participatory Historical Geography? Shaping and Failing to Shape Social Memory at an Oklahoma Memorial,” in Denis Cosgrove, Douglas Richardson, Dydia DeLyser, Stephen Daniels, and J. Nicholas Entrikin, eds.,  Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the DeLyser, Dydia, Stuart Aitken, Steve Herbert, Mike

Crang, and Linda McDowell, “Introduction,” in DeLyser et al Handbook of Qualitative Geography London: Sage, 1-17. (Note: appeared in Dec. 2009 with 2010 imprint.)

DeLyser, Dydia, “Writing qualitative geography,” in DeLyser et al, Handbook of Qualitative Geography, London: Sage, pp. 341-358. Peer reviewed. (Note: appeared in Dec. 2009 with 2010 imprint.)

DeLyser, Dydia, and Eric Pawson, “From Personal to Public: Communicating Qualitative Research for Public Consumption,” in Iain Hay, Qualitative Methods in Human Geography third edition (London: Oxford University Press; publication expected in 2010; page proofs returned 11/09 copies in print 2/10), pp. 356-367.

DeLyesr, Dydia, “Writing it Up,” in Jones, John Paul III, and Basil Gomez, Research Methods for Geographers: A First Course. London: Blackwell (proofs returned 12/09; in press, publication expected March 2010), pp. 424-436. 

DeLyser, Dydia. 2008. “ ‘Thus I Salute the Kentucky Daisey’s Claim,’ Gender, Social Memory, and the Mythic West at a Proposed Oklahoma Monument,” Cultural Geographies 15(1): 63-94.

DeLyser, Dydia, and Eric Pawson. 2005. “From Personal to Public: Communicating Qualitative Research for Public Consumption,” in Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, 2nd edition, Iain Hay, ed., (Melbourne: Oxford University Press), 266-274.

DeLyser, Dydia, Andrew Curtis, and Rebecca Sheehan. 2004.“Using E-Bay for Research in Historical Geography,” Journal of Historical Geography 30: 764-782.

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. 2004. “Ghost Towns,” in Patterned Ground: Ecologies and Geographies of Nature and Culture, Stephan Harrison, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, eds. (London: Reaktion Press), 196-198.

Progress reports, invited contributions, scholarly introductions:

Sui, Daniel, and Dydia DeLyser. 2011. “Crossing the Qualitative-Quantitative Chasm I: Hybrid Geographies, the Spatial Turn, and Volunteered Geogrraphic Information (VGI),” Progress in Human Geography. doi:10.1177/0309132510392164 (online first)

Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin, and Douglas Richardson, “Introduction: Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds,” in Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin, and Douglas Richardson, eds.,  Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities London: Routledge, 2011, pp. xvii-xxiii.

DeLyser, Dydia, and Bethany Rogers, 2010. “Meaning and Methods in Cultural Geography: Practicing the Scholarship of Teaching,” Cultural Geographies 17(2): 185-190.

DeLyser and Karolczyk, 2010 “Fieldwork and the Geographical Review: Retrospect and Possible Prospect” Geographical Review 100(4): 465-475.

DeLyser, Dydia, Steve Herbert, Stuart Aitken, Mike Crang, and Linda McDowell, Handbook of Qualitative Geography (London: Sage Publications). 23 Chapters. Introduction.

DeLyser, Dydia, “Openings: Introduction” in DeLyser et al, Handbook of Qualitative Geography, London: Sage, pp. 21-24. (Note: appeared in Dec. 2009 with 2010 imprint.)Peer reviewed.

Colten, Craig, Dydia DeLyser, Andrew Sluyter, and Kent Mathewson. 2010. “The 100th Volume” Geographical Review 100(1): iii-iv.

Encyclopedia entries (refereed):

DeLyser, Dydia. 2006. “Literature, Geography and/of,” in Warf, Barney, Altha Cravey, Dydia DeLyser, Lawrence Knopp, Daniel Sui, and David Wilson, Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks and London: Sage Publications) pp. 278-280.

DeLyser, Dydia. 2006. “Qualitative Methods,” in Warf, Barney, Altha Cravey, Dydia DeLyser, Lawrence Knopp, Daniel Sui, and David Wilson, Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks and London: Sage Publications) pp. 391-393.

DeLyser, Dydia. 2006. “Writing,” in Warf, Barney, Altha Cravey, Dydia DeLyser, Lawrence Knopp, Daniel Sui, and David Wilson, Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks and London: Sage Publications) pp. 545-547.

New editions of previously published works:

DeLyser, Dydia, “Authenticity on the Ground: Engaging the Past in a California Ghost Town,” in The Political Nature of Cultural and Heritage Tourism, D. Timothy, ed. London: Ashgate, 2007. (Reprint of article from Annals of the Association of American Geographers in 1999).

Films, video or audio recordings produced for presentation in theater, or on radio or television

Pope, Amanda, Director; Nick Spark, Writer, Dydia DeLyser, Associate Producer, The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the  Happy Bottom Riding Club a documentary film by Amanda Pope and Nick Spark, produced in association with KOCE TV Orange County and PBS, 2009. Aired on US Public Television in 2009 and 2010.

Textbooks:

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

Other creative and artistic scholarly contributions:

Curator, 2005-2006 “Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California” an exhibit of materials from private and public collections related to my research, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA (November 2005-February 2006).

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

North American editor, cultural geographies

2007-present, LSU's Faculty Athletics Representative (click HERE for more info)

2006-present, Associate Editor, Geographical Review

2005, Globe Book Award, Association of American Geographers

2005, Phi Kappa Phi Award for Outstanding Untenured Faculty Member in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Louisiana State University

COURSES TAUGHT

Human Geography: Europe and the Americas
Cultural Geography
Urban Geography
Gender, Place, and Culture
Advanced Qualitative Methods