Profile for Tanner Knorr

Tanner Knorr Pronouns: he/they

Assistant Professor

Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy

Specialty area(s)

I explore the intersection between tourism studies, Indigenous studies, decoloniality, and community development.

Kudos

presented

Tanner Knorr, Brian Kumm-Schaley, Hannah Mueller and W. Thomas Means, all Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, presented "at various sessions" at The Academy of Leisure Sciences' 2026 TALS Research and Teaching Conference on Feb. 11 in Philadelphia, PA.Kumm-Schaley presented "Ebbs, Eddies, and Pockets of Stillness: A Leisured Education?" and "Emerging as a Joyful Collective: An Accidental Foray into Post-Qualitative Inquiry," in addition to having a student presentation of "To swim or not to swim? How cultural capital shapes self-rescue within a whitewater kayaking community." Knorr presented "Federal Indian Policy, Tribal Sovereignty, and Protected Area Management within the United States." Kumm-Schaley and Dr. Means are both board members of TALS.

Submitted on: Feb. 16

published

Tanner Knorr, Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, co-authored the chapter "Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies" in Embodied Writing in Management and Organisation Studies and was accepted for publication by Routledge. This chapter is written as a collective as we consider how our bodies are tagged through materialities and ideas. We question what is produced and being produced through the embodied tags within our academic lives.

Submitted on: Sept. 11, 2025