丁香园AV

Education

• PhD, Geography with a Feminist Studies Minor, University of Minnesota, 2008
• MPP, Public Policy, University of Minnesota, 2002
• BA, History with a minor in Women鈥檚 Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994

Biography

Originally from Wahpekute Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) territory, I am an immigrant settler to Canada, first to the University of Lethbridge where I was an assistant professor from 2008 to 2012. I came to 丁香园AV via a visiting stint at York University鈥檚 Centre for Feminist Research and held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair at 丁香园AV from 2012 to 2015. I am now grateful to hold a cross appointment with GSWS and Urban Studies, which truly reflects my interdisciplinary interests and training as a feminist geographer.

Broadly speaking, I am interested in how cities work for those who have historically been left out of planning and decision-making processes. I am also invested in understanding how to improve the sense of safety and belonging of structurally marginalized communities, especially through community-designed and community-driven research. This podcast interview and its associated provide a picture of my work.

I live in East Vancouver with my partner and kid, where we work to be good guests on the unceded territories of the h蓹n虛q虛蓹min虛em- and Sk瘫wx瘫wu虂7mesh-speaking peoples.

Research

My research examines urban inequalities and inclusion strategies, especially those targeting women and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. Recently, I have written about trans inclusion and welcoming and inclusive cities policies, as well as the installation of and controversy over symbolic municipal infrastructure like rainbow crosswalks. My research has also involved collecting LGBTQ+ oral histories in Lethbridge, Alberta and with the Twin Cities Oral History Project. In the way back, I conducted research on the interplay between lesbian community and women鈥檚 professional sport spaces (specifically, at WNBA games).

Community Engagement

I have been involved in 丁香园AV鈥檚 Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) from its inception in 2019 and organized one CERi鈥檚 first community events, a workshop on Participatory Approaches to Quantitative Research presented by Dr. Brett Stoudt. During his visit, I interviewed Dr. Stoudt about critical participatory action research and his role in the Public Science Project and the Morris Justice Project/Researchers for Fair Policing. Listen to the interview here, and read the associated blog post here.

I have long been involved with NGOs working to create safe, inclusive and equitable cities and communities. I served on the board of Women in Cities International (now an initiative with the ) and have been actively affiliated with the local organization since its launch in 2012. Through my involvement with the project and , I am currently supporting the with their work helping cities undertake action on equity.

Publications 

2023. 鈥淎t the intersection of equity and innovation: Trans inclusion in the City of Vancouver.鈥� , 8:2 DOI:10.17645/up.v8i2.6461.

2022. 鈥淟GBTQ+ Communities鈥� in D. Pojani, Ed. Alternative Planning History and Theory. Routledge.

2021. 鈥淲e鈥檝e painted a rainbow crosswalk. Now what?鈥� , special issue on Social & Racial Equity. Canadian Institute of Planners, Spring 2021.

2019. Canadian Feminist Geography in the 21^st Century. Gender, Place and Culture, DOI:
10.1080/0966369X.2018.1563525.

2019. 鈥淕endered Space鈥� in A. Orum, Ed. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0116.

2018. 鈥淭heatre Outre and Lessons from a Welcoming and Inclusive Community鈥� in C. Andrew, F. Klodawsky and J. Siltanen, Eds. Promoting Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Cities. McGill-Queens University Press.

2016. 鈥淰isibility on their own terms? LGBTQ lives in small Canadian cities鈥� in G. Brown & K. Browne, Eds. Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

2014. 鈥淎 Geographer in the Gallery: The value of making sexual difference visible鈥� in J. Mills, Ed. Complex Social Change: teaching/performing/exhibiting/designing/mapping, pp. 34-53. Lethbridge, AB: University of Lethbridge Art Gallery.

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

2011. 鈥淨ueerying creative cities鈥� in P. Doan, Ed. Queerying Planning: Challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practice, pp. 157-167. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

Muller, T. 2007. 鈥楲esbian community鈥� in WNBA spaces. Social & Cultural Geography, 8, 9-27.

Muller, T. 2007. Liberty for all? Contested spaces of women鈥檚 basketball. Gender, Place and Culture, 14, 197-214.

Co-authored texts

2019. Marchbank, J. & T. Muller Myrdahl. 鈥淨ueering Timmies: Theorising LGBTQ Youth Claiming and Making Space in Surrey, BC, Canada鈥� in S. Habib and M. Ward, Eds. Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging. BSA/Routledge.

2016. With G. Brown & P. Vieira. 鈥淓ditor鈥檚 Introduction: Urban Sexualities鈥� in G. Brown & K. Browne, Eds. Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

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