Department Directory

Faculty

Joel Correia

Assistant Professor

Climate & environmental justice, political ecology of conservation & development, Indigenous rights, Latin America

Stuart Cottrell

Professor, Sustainable Tourism, Coordinator of Global Tourism Concentration

His research focus includes sustainable tourism development - linking tourism, nature conservation and protected areas; collaborative conservation and protected area management; and perceptions of landscape disturbance - implications for human dimensions of natural resources, recreation and tourism.

Jamie Dahl

Assistant Professor

Tian Guo

Assistant Professor

Behavior change, human processes of the coupled human-nature systems

David Knight

Assistant Professor; Natural Resource Tourism

community-based tourism, sustainability, empowerment, poverty alleviation, tourism resilience

Anna Lavoie

Assistant Professor

Gendered livelihoods, resource stewardship, and feminist political ecology

Paul Layden

Master Instructor | Undergraduate Coordinator | Internship Coordinator | Conference Coordinator

Internships, career preparation, event planning, natural resource ecology and measurements.

Jon Salerno

Assistant Professor

Human adaptation to environmental change

Tara Teel

Professor / Graduate Coordinator

Sarah Walker

Assistant Professor

Human-Environment Interactions

Lina Xiong

Associate Professor

Dr. Bear’s research areas include internal branding, service management and marketing, as well as destination brand marketing.

Wen Zhang

Assistant Professor