The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies

Faculty and Staff
 

Professor
Department Chair
Karla A. Henderson, Ph.D.
karla@email.unc.edu
Interest: women's leisure, social psychology of leisure, camping, research methodologies
 

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
M. Deborah Bialeschki, Ph.D.
moon@email.unc.edu
Interest: leisure attitudes & behaviors, outdoor recreation, women's leisure
 

Associate Professor
John Hemingway, Ph.D.
johnh@email.unc.edu
Interest: leisure theory, administration, legal issues and risk management
 

Assistant Professor
Janet S. Hodges, Ph.D.
jhodges@email.unc.edu
Interest: community therapeutic recreation services, inclusion
 

Assistant Professor
Beth Kivel, Ed.D.
bkivel@email.unc.edu
Interest: leisure ideology, marginalized youth, youth at risk, under served populations
 

Associate Director of
Center for Recreation and Disability Studies
Karen Luken, MSRA, TRS/CTRS
kluken@email.unc.edu
Interest: therapeutic recreation services, advocacy, community services and support, recovery
 

Project Coordinator
Center for Recreation and Disability Studies
Beth Sorensen,MSRA, TRS/CTRS
bethls@email.unc.edu
Interest: hospice and bereavement, services in the schools, brain injury and spinal cord injury.
 

Other Center for Recreation and Disability Studies project staff
 

Professor Emeritus
H. Douglas Sessoms, Ph.D.
adsess@intrex.net
Interest: theory, recreation education, group dynamics
 

Associate Professor Emeritus
Lee E. Meyer, Ph.D.
lemeyer@email.unc.edu
Interests: play, program development and facilities, special recreation
 

Office Manager
Meg Dawson
mmdawson@email.unc.edu
 

Secretary
Summer Montgomery
sundance@email.unc.edu
 
 
 

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