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Biography

Originally from Wahpekute Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) territory, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl is an immigrant settler to Canada, who came first to the University of Lethbridge where she was an assistant professor from 2008 to 2012. She then came to 大象传媒 via a visiting stint at York University鈥檚 Centre for Feminist Research and held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair at 大象传媒 from 2012 to 2015. She is now grateful to hold a cross appointment with Urban Studies and GSWS, which truly reflects her interdisciplinary interests and training as a feminist geographer.

Broadly speaking, she is interested in how cities work for those who have historically been left out of planning and decision-making processes. She is 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 her work.

She lives in East Vancouver with her partner and kid, where they 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

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl鈥檚 research examines urban inequalities and inclusion strategies, especially those targeting women and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. Recently, she has 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. Her research has also involved collecting LGBTQ+ oral histories in Lethbridge, Alberta and with the Twin Cities Oral History Project. In the way back, she conducted research on the interplay between lesbian community and women鈥檚 professional sport spaces (specifically, at WNBA games).

Community Engagement

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl has been involved in 大象传媒鈥檚 Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) from its inception in 2019 and organized one of CERi鈥檚 first community events, a workshop on Participatory Approaches to Quantitative Research presented by Dr. Brett Stoudt. During his visit, she 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.

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

Publications

(Forthcoming) Podmore, J., Muller Myrdahl, T., & A. Bain. "Rainbow Crosswalks" in G. Hartal, V. De Craene, V. & K. Filep, Eds. Routledge Handbook of Sexualities and Space. Routledge. 

April 2024. Winters, M., Fuller, D., Cloutier, M-S, Harris, M.A., Howard, A., Kestens, Y., Kirk, S, Macpherson, A., Moore, S, Rothman, L., Shareck, M., Tomasone, J.R., Laberee, K., Poirier Stephens, Z., Sones, M., Ayton, D., Batomen, B., Bell, S., Collins, P.A., Diab, E., Giles, A.R., Hagel, B.E., Harris, M.S., Harris, P., Lachapelle, U., Manaugh, K., Mitra, R., Muhajarine, N., Muller Myrdahl, T., Pettit, C.J., Pike, I., Skouteris, H., Wachsmuth, D., Whitehurst, D. & Beck, B. Building CapaCITY/脡 for Sustainable Transportation: Protocol for an Implementation Science Research Program in Healthy Cities. BMJ Open. 

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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