May 11, 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.
12:30 p.m. Central Time
May 11, 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
- Teaching Assistant 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
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.
