Graduate faculty

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

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.

Evidence-based therapeutic interventions (e.g., nature and forest therapy, ecotherapy, mindfulness); Interactions between humans and the environment (e.g., place attachment, place meanings, community attachment); Health and well-being (e.g., behavioral, mental, emotional); Measurement and evaluation in therapeutic recreation; GIS applications to community integration/inclusion, health promotion, and recreation resource planning and management

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

*     Leisure and personal experience

*     Affect and impersonal experience

*     Leisure and culture

*     Qualitative and postqualitative inquiry

*     Politics of leisure

*     Deleuze & Deleuzian approaches to leisure

constraints to outdoor recreation for individuals with larger bodies, experiential education, international travel, and career development

Outdoor recreation, tourism, place attachment, social media and recreation/tourism

Adapted recreation and sports; leisure across the lifespan