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Recreational Therapy

Graduate faculty

RM & TR Graduate Program Director

Kate Evans  Office hours

Kate Evans's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only

Specialty areas:

Outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement

Tara Delong  Office hours

Tara Delong's office hours

Monday
11 a.m. to noon
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only

Specialty areas:

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

Laurie Harmon  Office hours

Laurie Harmon's office hours

Monday
10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment
Tuesday
10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment
Wednesday
10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment
Thursday
10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment
Friday
10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment

Remote office hours offered: Virtual appointments are an option. Please contact me at lharmon@uwlax.edu if you'd like to schedule a virtual meeting.

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.

Lindsey Kirschbaum

Specialty areas:

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

Brian Kumm-Schaley  Office hours

Brian Kumm-Schaley's office hours

Monday
10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.
Wednesday
10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.
2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Friday
1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Remote office hours offered: Virtual meetings are an options. Please email me at bkumm-schaley@uwlax.edu to schedule a virtual meeting.

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

Specialty areas:

-Philosophy of Science, Paradigms, and Epistemological Anarchy

-Constructive Developmental Theory

-Meaning Making and Leisure

-Developmental Disability and Camp

Lisa Savarese

Specialty areas:

Adapted sports and recreational therapy 

Jennifer Taylor

Specialty areas:

Director, Health Science Interprofessional Research Center

"Dr. Wags" Facility Service Dog Program

Rossi II

Rossi II

Canine Companions Facility Service Dog
4049 Health Science Center

Specialty areas:
Reducing anxiety
Snuggles
Playing fetch
Bringing joy and shedding