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
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
Kelsey Johansen
Lecturer
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: narratives produced by and for tourists/recreationists, the transmission of inter-cultural knowledge and sustainability practices, host and guest interactions, the phenomenological experience of tourism, recreation and leisure, and rural community tourism development.
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
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
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