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RM & TR Graduate Program Director

Katherine Evans  Profile of Katherine Evans  Office hours

Professor
2052 Health Science Center
kevans@uwlax.edu
608.785.8210

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

Tara Delong  Profile of Tara Delong  Office hours

Associate Teaching Professor
2050 Health Science Center
tdelong@uwlax.edu
608.785.8203

Specialty areas:

Mental Health, Health education, capacity building, group facilitation, trauma informed care, and cultural humility

Laurie Harmon  Profile of Laurie Harmon  Office hours

Professor
2044 Health Science Center
lharmon@uwlax.edu
608.785.8213

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.

Namyun Kil  Profile of Namyun Kil

Associate Professor
2048 Health Science Center
nkil@uwlax.edu
608.785.8214

Specialty areas:

  • Evidence-based therapeutic interventions (e.g., nature and forest therapy, forest bathing, ecotherapy, mindfulness) for individuals of all ages and abilities, including older adults
  • Interactions between humans and the environment (e.g., nature connectedness, place attachment, place meanings, community attachment)
  • Healthy aging
  • Health and well-being
  • Measurement and evaluation
  • GIS applications to community integration/inclusion, health promotion, and recreation resource planning and management
Lindsey Kirschbaum  Profile of Lindsey Kirschbaum

Assistant Teaching Professor
2045 Health Science Center
lkirschbaum@uwlax.edu
608.785.8217

Specialty areas:

Developmental/Physical Disabilities, Sensory Integration, Assistive Technology/Adaptive Equipment, Sibling Support

Brian Kumm-Schaley  Profile of Brian Kumm-Schaley  Office hours

Associate Professor
2049 Health Science Center
bkumm-schaley@uwlax.edu
608.785.8212

Specialty areas:

*     Community Recreation and Social Belonging

*     Leisure and Culture

*     Theories of Affect

*     Qualitative and Postqualitative Inquiry

*     Deleuze & Deleuzian approaches to research and leisure

W. Thomas Means  Profile of W. Thomas Means

Assistant Professor
2047 Health Science Center
wmeans@uwlax.edu
608.785.8199

Specialty areas:

-Philosophy of Science, Paradigms, and Epistemological Anarchy

-Constructive Developmental Theory

-Meaning Making and Leisure

-Developmental Disability and Camp

Daniel Plunkett  Profile of Daniel Plunkett  Office hours

Associate Professor
2044 Health Science Center
dplunkett@uwlax.edu
608.785.8204

Specialty areas:

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

Lisa Savarese  Profile of Lisa Savarese

Associate Teaching Professor
2046 Health Science Center
lsavarese@uwlax.edu
608.785.8202

Specialty areas:

Adapted sports and recreational therapy 

Jennifer Taylor  Profile of Jennifer Taylor

Assistant Professor
2043 Health Science Center
jtaylor@uwlax.edu
608.785.8216

Specialty areas:

Director, Health Science Interprofessional Research Center

"Dr. Wags" Facility Service Dog Program