Robert Beland, Ph.D.

• Recreation and the aged
• Bibliotherapy and the aged and pediatrics
• Recreation and psychiatry

Charles Byrd, Ph.D.

• Program design and evaluation of out-of-school programs for youth and families
• Health psychology and behavioral medicine
• Cultural sensitivity in medical and psychological research, assessment and treatment

Bertha Cato, Re.D.

• Youth development and prevention of at risk youth
• Evaluation of prevention programs
• Financing and marketing tourism, recreation and parks services

Dan Connaughton, Ed.D.

• Legal issues in exercise & sport programs
• Risk management
• Safety & injury prevention in exercise & sport programs

Doug DeMichele, Ed.D.

• Campus recreation
• Recreation programming and leadership
• Facilities management

Dovie Gamble, Ph.D.

• Cancer survivors and leisure activities
• African Americans and social leisure
• Therapeutic recreation and treatment of patients

Heather Gibson, Ph.D.

• Leisure, sport and tourism aging/retirement issues
• Gender and leisure activities
• Sport tourism, issues and behavior

Stephen Holland, Ph.D.

• Water based activity participation and demand
• Ecotourism, wildlife areas and rural tourism development
• Visitor studies of parks and natural areas and economic impact of such areas

Kaplanidou, Kyriaki (Kiki), Ph.D.

• Sport consumer behavior
• Image of sport and sport events and their fit with destination and sponsor images
• National and international communities’ development through sport tourism initiatives

May Kim, Ph.D.

• Management of non-traditional employees in sport settings
• Service quality related to the performance of non-traditional employees in sport
• Work-family conflict in sport settings

Yong Jae Ko, Ph.D.

• Service quality in sport and recreation
• Sport consumer behavior
• Marketing and management of martial arts

Charles Lane, Ph.D.

• Tourism and technology
• Destination message design
• Instructional technology in travel and tourism

Lori Pennington-Gray, Ph.D.

• Marketing of tourism destinations
• Planning and developing sustainable tourism destinations
• Demand issues related to tourism

John Spengler, J.D., Ph.D.

• Safety and injury prevention in sport and recreation
• Case and statutory law analysis in sport and recreation
• Environmental correlates to physical activity in the park setting

Brijesh Thapa, Ph.D.

• Ecotourism and cultural heritage tourism in developing countries
• Tourist behaviors & impacts: socio-cultural, environmental and economic
• Outdoor recreation and tourism management in parks & protected areas

Charles Williams, Ed.D.

• Youth personal fitness programs
• Fitness and sport facility design and management
• Wellness programs in correctional facilities

James Zhang, P.E.D.

• Study of sport consumer behaviors
• Study of sport organizational behaviors
• Research design, measurement, and statistics