PhD Graduates

Graduate Year Dissertation Advisor Initial Placement
Rui Yang

Service Automation in Smart Service Ecosystem: Implications for Consumer Crafting Behavior

Woojin Lee, PhD
Linlin Zhang

When Borders Blurred: Mobility, Work and Leisure in Digital Nomadism

Deepak Chhabra, PhD
Rodney Machokoto

Towards a Theory of Social Enterprise-driven Systemic Change: Social Movement and Social  Network Lessons from Ellen G. White and the Adventist Health Reform Movement

Laurie Mook, PhD
Kailei Foltmer

Masks, Muscles, & Master Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Women Athletes in Masculine-Coded Sports

Eric Legg, PhD
Natasha Martell Jackson

Agents of Change: The Role of Corporate Leaders in Advancing Inclusion - An Institutional Perspective

Christine Buzinde, PhD
Tanner Knorr

Diné as (Mili)Tourists

Christine Buzinde, PhD
Yanqu Zheng

Guanxi as an Agent of Community Participation, Tourism Governance and Sustainability: A Case Study of the Gateway Ethnic Community Adjacent to Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park

Kelly Bricker, PhD
Celina Tchida

Clarifying Relational Ethics: A Comprehensive, Validated Set of Principles for University-Community Partnerships

Mark Roseland, PhD
Rocky Harris

Leveraging Sports Events to Increase Social Capital and Foster a Sense of Community

Eric Legg, PhD

Chief of Sport & Athlete Services, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee

Tasha Holmes

Beyond the Degree: The Impact of Student-Hometown Interaction on University Student Intent to Return and Contribute after Graduation

Richard C. Knopf, PhD
Kelly Rutt

Ethics and the Social Entrepreneur: The Journey to an Apposite Professional Code of Ethics

Gordon Shockley, PhD

Post-doctoral fellowship, GloCal Health Fellows program through the University of California

Popi Irawan

Destinations and Disasters: How Culture and Social Dynamics Promote the Resilience of Local Tourism Communities in Disaster-Prone Destinations

Dallen Timothy, PhD
Bailey Borman

Pitching Entrepreneurial Culture: An Organizational Ethnography of Curricular and Co-curricular Social Entrepreneurship Pitch Competitions

Madelaine Adelman, PhD and Laurie Mook, PhD

Director, Strategic Projects and Initiatives, Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions, Arizona State University

Peiyao Li

Organizational Adaptations and Dynamic Capabilities How the Performance of Disaster Relief Nonprofits is Shaped under Uncertainty

Lili Wang, PhD and Laurie Mook, PhD Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Boyu Lin

Exploring Ethical Implications of Adopting Autonomous Service Robots (ASRs) in Hospitality: A Mixed-Methods Study

Woojin Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor City University of Macau

Mahalakshmi Mahalingam

Building Capacity for Food Justice through Learning Pathways: Women’s Group Farming in Kudumbashree, Kerala, India

Laurie Mook, PhD and Richard Knopf, PhD

Educator, Independent Researcher, Community Development Practitioner

Linsi He

Place Representation through Souvenir Production and Consumption

Dallen Timothy, PhD

PostDoctoral Researcher
Yunnan University in Kunming, China

Hyunrang Han

The Roles, Impacts, and Institutional Characteristics of Grantmaking Foundations Supporting Women’s Causes in the U.S.

Lili Wang, PhD

Visiting Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at El Paso

Tania Lizzeth Hernandez Ortiz

Organizational Discontinuity in Nonprofit Organizations: A Study of Closures, Mergers, and Other Terminal Outcomes

Mark Hager, PhD

Research Data Analyst
Invest in Open Infrastructure, Mexico City, Mexico

Josephine Godwyll

Linkages between Community Well-being and Access to Public Spaces : An Environmental Justice Perspective

Christine Buzinde, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Alberta

Matthew Gallagher

Evaluator Exclusion in the Program Planning and Design Phase

Jesse Lecy, PhD

Technical Advisor at M&E at IREX
Founder of Aboveboard Evaluation and Research, LLC

Connor Clark

Ecological Restoration and Tourism Development as Agents of Bordering: A Case Study of the U.S.-Mexico Border

Gyan Nyaupane, PhD

Assistant Professor 
Texas A&M University

Vincent Anderson

Is it Significant?: Examining the Relationship between the Racial Identity Statuses and Academic Motivation Styles of African-American College Students

Richard C. Knopf, PhD
Felicia Ganther

Latino Male Community College Student Intentions to Graduate: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior

Richard C. Knopf, PhD

President
Bucks County Community College

Chia-Mei Hsia

From soul searching to community building: Understanding community identification through community "jen-tung" process

Richard C. Knopf, PhD

Assistant Professor
Hungkuang University, Taiwan

Jada Lindblom

Affective Impacts of Tourism in a Post-War, Re-Emerging Destination

Christine Vogt, PhD and Kathleen Andereck, PhD

Associate Field Specialist: Community and Economic Development
University of New Hampshire

Virginia Coco

Identifying barriers to field based environmental education in K-8 public elementary schools in Arizona

Kathleen Andereck, PhD and Wendy Hultsman, PhD

Virtual Special Education Case Manager
Quantum Pros

Seojin Lee

Adoption and resistance of service innovations by travelers in the sharing economy

Woojin Lee, PhD

Faculty Associate
Arizona State University

Eunhye Kim

Co-Created Destination Branding for Creative MICE Tourism: Building Synergies with Cultural Heritage Assets

Deepak Chhabra, PhD and Dallen Timothy, PhD

Assistant Professor
Central Connecticut State University

Chia-Ko Hung

Knowledge Advancement in Nonprofit and Public Management Research: The Potential of Meta-Analysis

Mark Hager, PhD

Associate Professor
University of Hawaii