The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is a division of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Troy D. Glover
Professor; Department Chair
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: urban recreation, place meanings, social capital development, grassroots organizing, and narrative inquiry
Bryan S. R. Grimwood
Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: geographies of nature-based travel; tourism, outdoor recreation, and leisure; tourism ethics and environmental responsibility; arctic tourism, livelihoods, and special places; community-based participatory research; experiential education and outdoor learning
Corey W. Johnson
Professor
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: dominant and non-dominant relations in leisure contexts, inclusive recreation and disability, masculinity, sexual and gender identity, activism and anti-hegemonic volunteering, cultural and digital media, qualitative methods - ethnography, collective memory and creative analytic practice
Heather L. Mair
Professor
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: leisure, tourism and sport policy development; food and leisure; the politics of tourism and rural development; leisure, tourism, sport and community development; critical and qualitative inquiry