Our Tourism RESET affiliates support RESET’s mission and goals through sharing RESET initiatives and research from fellows. Their primary role as an affiliate is simply to act as a support for the group, and be willing to give guidance when called upon. Affiliates can be academics, educational institutions, or industry partners.
Shaniel Bernard, PhD
Shaniel Bernard, PhD is originally from the island of Jamaica. She has worked in several hospitality and tourism fields including food and beverage, sales, housekeeping, front desk, and guest services manager. She has taught courses such as Lodging Management, Customer Service, Sustainable Tourism, Senior Lecture, and Intro to Hospitality and Tourism for 5 years. Along with several awards for her research and teaching, Dr. Bernard was recently granted the 2020 Student Involvement Award at Auburn University, representing the highest academic achievement, leadership, and involvement amongst international students. Her main areas of published and presented research include consumer behavior toward innovation in the service industry, awareness-behavior gap, sustainability in hospitality and tourism, and environmental management in hospitality and tourism.
shanielb@vt.edu
Johnathon Day, PhD
Jonathon Day is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Purdue University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. His research interests focus on sustainable tourism, responsible travel, and strategic destination governance within the tourism system. He is also interested in the role of business in solving grand challenges through corporate social responsibility programs and social entrepreneurship.
Kang "Jerry" Lee, PhD
Dr. KangJae “Jerry” Lee (이강재: 李康在) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management at North Carolina State University. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Department of Parks, Recreation, & Tourism at the University of Missouri. Lee holds a Ph.D. and M.S. degree from the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University.
Lee’s scholarly activities have focused on the issues on social justice, diversity, racial discrimination, subjective well-being, and interracial interaction in the context of park, recreation, tourism, and sport. His research and teaching have been recognized by Golden Apple Award in Excellent Teaching and Mentorship at the University of Missouri, the U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship, Diversity Scholarship from National Recreation and Park Association, and Korean American Scholarship Foundation.
Rasul A. Mowatt, PhD
Rasul A. Mowatt is a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Geography in the College of Arts + Science at Indiana University. Relevant areas of focus are the: Geographies of Race, Geographies of Violence and Threat, and the Political Animation of Public Space. Selected published work has discussed: The ways that White nationalists have used public space and events for the coalescing and bureaucratization of their ideologies in Leisure Studies; In a year-long community-based organization embedment looking at public participation across Race and class lines in the creation of large scale event capital campaigns tied to Olympic bidding in Revue Loisir et Societe - Leisure and Society; The liminality of identity and activism in protest events in Liminality and Critical Event Studies: Boundaries, Borders and Contestation; The complex role of racial identity, historical trauma, and destination management in touring Ghanaian Slave Castles in Annals of Tourism Research; The intersections of historical racial violence and racial discrimination that informs Black travel in Current Issues in Tourism; and, The utilization of archival maps and materials of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Philadelphia Negro to consider how cities have historical and racialized impacts on quality of life.
ramowatt@indiana.edu
Aby Sene-Harper, PhD
Dr. Aby Sene-Harper's work advances socially just approaches to management of public lands and cultural resources in the US and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research is situated at the intersections of protected areas, Race and ethnicity, tourism and livelihoods. In the US her work examines how history and culture mediate African American relationships with nature. In Sub-Saharan Africa, her work centers on the potential of integrated conservation and development approaches (e.g. livelihood projects, ecotourism, community-based conservation) to yield positive and sustainable results for community development and protected areas. Dr. Sene-Harper believes that research methods should be informed by the social contexts and questions at hand. She uses both qualitative (e.g. interviews, focus groups, discourse analysis) and quantitative (e.g. survey questionnaires) methods. She is particularly proficient in qualitative methodology to gain a deeper understanding of marginalized communities and their relationships with nature and protected areas in particular. She was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation-Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF-IGERT) fellowship.
ABYH@clemson.edu
Paige Viren, PhD
Assistant professor of Recreation, Parks, & Tourism at San Francisco University. Paige Viren’s research interests revolve around consumer behavior and tourism, with a special focus on adventure travel and sustainable community-based tourism areas. She has worked closely with the Adventure Travel Trade Association examining adventure industry issues and trends. Additionally, her background includes a decade in eastern N.C. working with rural communities in developing sustainable community-based tourism as an alternative means of diversifying the rural economy.
She has more than 12 years of travel industry experience, providing her with valuable insight and understanding of the importance of translating research into practical application for community-based tourism. She has led study abroad programs to Australia and Fiji and was selected as the 2012-13 Outstanding Faculty Affiliate for the Center for Sustainable Tourism at East Carolina University, as well as the 2015-2016 recipient of the University Scholarship of Engagement award. As a longtime participant and advocate of adventure travel, she believes these types of experiences promote cultural understanding, fulfill personal dreams, and encourage environmental sustainability.
paigeviren@sfsu.edu