Recreational Therapy
Graduate faculty
RM & TR Graduate Program Director
- 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
- 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
- Professor
- 2051 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.
- Associate Professor
- 2048 Health Science Center
- nkil@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8214
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Associate Teaching Professor
- 2046 Health Science Center
- lsavarese@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8202
Specialty areas:
Adapted sports and recreational therapy
- 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
Rossi II
4049 Health Science Center
Specialty areas:
Reducing anxiety
Snuggles
Playing fetch
Bringing joy and shedding