Biography
Callie Spencer Schultz, Ph.D. is currently serving as Program Director and Assistant
Professor in Parks and Recreation Management and Assistant Professor in the M.S. Experiential
and Outdoor Education Program at WCU. Her classrooms concentrate on critical and poststructural
perspectives of leisure and the ways in which leisure both shapes and is shaped by
culture. At WCU she teaches courses focused on diversity & social justice, leadership
& group dynamics, research methods, social media, international travel & global citizenship,
and programing & evaluation. Dr. Schultz’s research interests include leisure and
new media, leisure and social justice, and the performance of subjectivities in transmedia
leisure spaces. Utilizing qualitative methodologies that trouble notions of traditional
epistemologies, her work aims to challenge us to think about “what counts” as leisure
scholarship. She has recently won a grant to purchase and facilitate the Missouri
Community Action Network's Poverty Simulation at WCU in partnership with Health &
PE faculty and the International Programs and Services Department. The simulation
encourages students to think critically about experiences of poverty and counter harmful
sterotypes, promoting empathy. Her team has facilitated the simulation for over 400
WCU students and counting. She has been nationally recognized as a future intellectual
leader in her field.
Teaching Interests
<u>Courses Taught PRM:</u><br>PRM 270: Leadership & Group Dynamics<br>PRM 275: Diversity
& Inclusion in PRM<br>PRM 322: International Adventure Travel & Global Citizenship<br>PRM
361: Programming & Evaluation in PRM<br>PRM 495: Senior Seminar<br>PRM 483/484: Senior
Capstone Internship<br>Travel Course: PRM 435 Sites, Programs, Facilities: Snowsports
Management Trip to Utah (taught in early January)<br><br><u>Courses Taught EOE:</u><br>EOE
502: Diversity and Social Justice<br>EOE 624: Social Media, Technology, and EOE<br>EOE
600: Advanced Research Methods & Evaluation Techniques<br>EOE 698: Thesis/Project
I<br>EOE 699: Thesis/Project II<br><br>
Research Interests
Recent Publications (For full list of publications & presentations see CV)<br><br>1.
Schultz, C. S., Legg, E. (2020). A/r/tography: At the intersection of art, leisure,
and science. <i>Leisure Sciences</i>, <i>42</i> (2), 243-252.<br><br>2. Schultz, C.
S., McKeown, J. K.L., Wynn, D. (2020). Altmetrics: Measuring public engagement with
contemporary leisure scholarship. <i>Leisure Sciences</i>, <i>42</i>(1), 123-131.<br><br>3.
Schultz, C. S., Kumm, B., Rose, J., Legg, E. (2020). Emotional pedagogies: Strategies
for engaging social justice in the classroom. <i>SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies
and Recreation Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/1937156X.2020.1777227</i><br><br>4.
Kumm, B., Pate, J., Schultz, C. S. (2020). The future is unwritten: Listening to the
rhythms of COVID-19. <i>Leisure Sciences.</i> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490400.2020.1773987<br><br>5.
Schultz, C. S., Oakleaf, L., Paisley, K. (2020). Color-coded activity charts and Beachbody:
“Momming” in COVID-19.<i> Leisure Sciences.</i> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490400.2020.1773997?journalCode=uls
c20<br><br>6. Schultz, C., & McKeown, J. (2018). Introduction to the special issue:
Toward “Digital Leisure Studies.” <i>Leisure Sciences</i>. <i>40</i>(4), 223-238.<br><br>7.
Schultz, C., McKeown, J. (2018). Digital Leisure Studies. Wikipedia. Retrieved from:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_leisure_studies"<br><br>8. Schultz,
C. S. (2017). "Working the ruins" of collaborative feminist research. <i>International
Journal of Qualitative Studies in Educatio</i>n, 30(6), 505-518.