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Recreation Management - Professional Development

Our people

Academic Program Director

Katherine Evans  Profile of Katherine Evans

Specialty areas:

Issues of social justice in leisure, outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement

Instructors

Jon Evans  Profile of Jon Evans
Laurie Harmon  Profile of Laurie Harmon

Specialty areas:

My primary areas of research are social-psychological outcomes of nature-based recreation including how we come to know and get connected to places, technology and the outdoors, and the scholarship of teaching & learning.  I particularly enjoy the work I do using underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to get youth and adults connected to aquatic environments.

Brian Kumm-Schaley  Profile of Brian Kumm-Schaley

Specialty areas:

*     Community Recreation and Social Belonging

*     Leisure and Culture

*     Theories of Affect

*     Qualitative and Postqualitative Inquiry

*     Deleuze & Deleuzian approaches to research and leisure

Daniel Plunkett  Profile of Daniel Plunkett

Specialty areas:

Event planning, event management, tourism, outdoor recreation, place attachment, social media use in recreation/tourism

Graduate & Extended Learning Staff

Olga Santoyo-Garcia  Profile of Olga Santoyo-Garcia

Specialty areas:

Non-credit and credit program support; event logistics; graduate program applicant and student assistance. 

Primary contact for student Commencement questions and for Summer/Winter Session. 

Amber Miller-Adamany  Profile of Amber Miller-Adamany

Specialty areas:

Conference services, professional development, and graduate program support. Primary contact for School Psychology Online, Recreation Management-Professional Development, and Public Health graduate programs.