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Kai-Sean Lee
Assistant ProfessorBiographyI am a former pastry commis, cook, and barista from Malaysia. I specialize in food and beverage research with […]

Dan Jin
Assistant ProfessorBiographyMy research addresses two broad questions. First, how do social factors shape service inclusion and consumer transformative behavior? Second, […]

Hongping Zhang
Clinical Assistant ProfessorBiographyMy research focuses on youth and emerging adult development through educational tourism. I’m also interested in tourism and […]

Dean Aaser
Senior CoordinatorBiographyI received my M.S. in Hospitality and Tourism from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. I then spent most of the […]

Jeremy E. Whaley
Associate ProfessorBiographyI joined the Department of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management as a tenure-seeking faculty in the fall semester 2014. […]

James Williams
Associate ProfessorBiographyMy primary research interests are leadership, soft skills, youth sports impact on leadership, and traits of hospitality business leaders. […]

Tyler White
Assistant Professor of PracticeBiographyTyler White is an Alumni of the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and has been teaching at the […]

Stefanie Benjamin
Associate ProfessorBiography My research agenda lies within the nexus of social equity and critical tourism scholarship exploring marginalized populations’ lived […]