February 3, 2026
Attend a free info session!
Join academic director Kate Evans, Ph.D., for an informal online session to learn more about the program and get your questions answered.
Noon Central Time
February 3, 2026
Academic Program Director
- Professor
- Health Science Center
- kevans@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8210
Specialty areas:
Outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement
Instructors
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Health Science Center
- jevans@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8209
- Professor
- 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
- 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
- Lecturer
- Morris Hall
- dplunkett@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8204
Specialty areas:
Event planning, event management, tourism, outdoor recreation, place attachment, social media use in recreation/tourism
Graduate & Extended Learning Staff
- Administrative Assistant III
- 220 Morris Hall
- osantoyo-garcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6513
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.
