Dydia Delyser

She is a feminist cultural-historical geographer and associate professor of geography at California State University, Fullerton. Her research focuses broadly on issues of landscape and memory in Los Angeles, California, and the United States—all places she is from, and to which she seeks to make a contribution, in research that is community engaged. Through in-depth qualitative research (both historical and contemporary) DeLyser has studied ghost towns, fiction-inspired places, and early women pilots; her current research explores how neon signs transform the American landscape. She serves on the boards of three non-profit organizations related to her research, and as a representative of her community to the City of Los Angeles on the Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council.