The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is a division of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Lisbeth Berbary
Associate Professor
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: social change; inclusivity and equity; interconnections among race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, status; improvisational qualitative methodologies; arts-based and creative analytic practices; macro social theories (ie. critical, critical race, feminism(s), post-structural, queer, post-humanism); bisexual/pansexual erasure and biphobia
Sherry L. Dupuis
Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: culture change in long-term care; dementia and dementia care; leisure, aging and care; leisure, health and wellness; arts-based research; participatory action research
Leeann Ferries
Continuing Lecturer, Associate Dean Undergraduate Studies
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: therapeutic recreation, evidence-based practice, leisure and persons with disabilities, leisure and mental health
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
Kimberly J. Lopez
Assistant Professor
Research interests: narrative inquiry; participatory action research; community engagement; qualitative methods and methodologies; critical social theories; caring and care work; leisure, wellness, well-being, and health; inclusive/therapeutic recreation and leisure; leisure, aging, and later life; difference and marginalization; digital storytelling, body mapping, photo-elicitation and photo voice, digital, arts-based methods and representation
Zara Rafferty
Continuing Lecturer
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: leisure and the arts, qualitative inquiry, inclusion in leisure contexts, experiential education, child and youth leisure