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Faculty Profiles
Directory of faculty of the School of Community Resources and Development.
 | Maria T. Allison Professor Email: | Education: B.S. University of New Mexico (Physical Education); M.S. University of New Mexico (Physical Education); Ph.D. University of Illinois (Sociology of Leisure). Academic Interests: Sociology of leisure, play and leisure behavior, research methods and design, ethnicity/cultural analysis of play and leisure. |
 | Robert F. Ashcraft Director of Nonprofit Leadership and Management and Associate Professor Email: | Education: B.A. University of Arizona (Broadcast Communications); M.A. Northern Arizona University (Human Relations and Behavior); Ph.D. Arizona State University (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies). Academic Interests: Nonprofit organization leadership and management, youth development, philanthropy, and volunteerism. |
 | Rebecca Barry Lecturer Email: Rebecca.Barry@asu.edu | Education: Honors B.A. (Russian), University of Utah; M.A. (Russian), Middlebury College; Ph.D. (Parks, Recreation, and Tourism), University of Utah. Academic Interests: Outdoor recreation management, depreciative behavior, psychology of leisure, environmental psychology, scenic beauty, philosophy of leisure. |
 | Megha Budruk Assistant Professor Email: Megha.Budruk@asu.edu | Education: B.S. (Zoology), University of Poona, India; M.S. (Environmental Sciences), University of Poona, India; M.S. (Recreation Management and Tourism), Arizona State University; Ph.D. (Natural Resources), University of Vermont. Academic Interests: Visitor impacts, experience and management at urban parks, cultural monuments, museums, zoos. Other interests include community involvement in natural resource planning on public lands. |
 | Deepak Chhabra Assistant Professor Email: deepak.chhabra@asu.edu | Education: B.A. Jammu University (Arts); M.A. Schiller International University, United Kingdom (International Tourism and Hotel Management); M.Phil. Jammu University (History); Ph.D. North Carolina State University (Forestry with emphasis on heritage tourism). Academic Interests: Heritage tourism, gambling tourism, and sports tourism, short-term events, socioeconomic impacts of recreation and tourism, authenticity of heritage objects and indigenous cultures, sustainability of tourism, travel and spending behavior of tourists, tourist expenditures and their subsequent economic impacts in terms of direct, indirect, and induced benefits. |
 | Christopher Jones Assistant Professor Email: Chris.Jones.2@asu.edu | Education: B.A. (Psychology), University of Tennessee; M.S. (Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management), Clemson University, Ph.D. (Forest Resources Science), West Virginia University. Interests: environmental psychology, place attachment, wildland-urban interface, water resources. |
 | Gyan Nyaupane Assistant Professor Email: Gyan.Nyaupane@asu.edu | Education: B.S. (Forestry), Tribhuvan University, Nepal; M.S. (Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management), Lincoln University, New Zealand; Ph.D. (Leisure Studies), Pennsylvania State University. Academic Interests: Nature-based tourism, user fees, tourism/recreation behavior, tourism policy, planning and development, and environmental, social and economic impacts of tourism. |
 | Kelly Ramella Lecturer Email: Kelly.Ramella@asu.edu | Education: B.S. University of Connecticut, (Therapeutic Recreation) M.A. Webster University (Health Services Management/Public Administration) CTRS, Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. Interests: Community based human service programs. Geriatrics, inclusive recreation, issues in therapeutic recreation, program development, leadership, and strategic planning. |
 | Gordon Shockley Assistant Professor Email: Gordon.Shockley@asu.edu | Education: Ph.D. George Mason University—School of Public Policy (Public Policy); M.M./M.B.A. Northwestern University—J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Public and Nonprofit Management and Accounting); B.A. University of California, Los Angeles—Honors College (Ancient Greek and English Languages and Literatures). Academic interests: Non-market entrepreneurship; nonprofit and public sector organizations; public policy analysis; politics, economics, and sociology of the arts and humanities. |
 | Victor B. Teye Associate Professor Email: | Education: B.A. (Honors) University of Ghana; M.A. University of Manitoba (Geography and Resource Management); Ph.D. University of Manitoba (Geography and Development Economics). Academic Interests: International tourism, economic geography, recreation resource regions, tourism impact, developing destinations. |
 | Timothy Tyrrell Professor Email: | Education: B.A. University of South Florida (Mathematics); M.A. University of Tennessee (Economics); Ph.D. Cornell University (Agricultural Economics). Academic Interests: Tourism economics, community development, urban tourism, econometrics and dynamic modeling. |
 | Randy J. Virden Associate Professor Email: | Education: B.S. Arizona State University (Recreation); M.S. Arizona State University (Outdoor Recreation); Ph.D. Utah State University (Recreation Resource Management). Academic Interests: Outdoor recreation behavior, park, forest and wilderness management, recreation resource policy, planning. |
 | Dave White Assistant Professor Email: | Education: B.A. (History), George Mason University; M.S. (Resource Recreation and Tourism), University of Idaho; Ph.D. (Forestry), Virginia Tech. Academic Interests: Public understanding of science in natural resource policy, social and ecological impacts of recreation and tourism, community involvement in natural resource planning, history of parks and wilderness. |
 | Carlton F. Yoshioka Professor Email: | Education: B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara (Biology); M.A. California State University, Chico (Recreation Administration); Ph.D. University of Oregon (Recreation Administration). Academic Interests: Administration and management, social aspects of leisure behavior, cross-cultural aspects of leisure. |