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Carter A. Hunt

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Associate Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, and Anthropology, Penn State

My interests lie at the intersection of environmental anthropology and the anthropology of tourism. I utilize ethnographic methods to conduct field research on the impact of tourism on biodiversity conservation, sustainable community development efforts, and rural livelihoods around parks and protected areas. I have conducted fieldwork related to these interests in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, and Tanzania. 

I also leverage an interest in conservation psychology into research on the ways that travel to nature-based destinations influences one’s subsequent pro-environmental behavior, including conservation-oriented travel philanthropy. 

At Penn St. my teaching corresponds to these interests. The on-campus and field courses I have taught focus on nature-based tourism, social and environmental sustainability, community development, the environment, and qualitative research methods.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Associate Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, and Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2013–2019
    Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2009–2012
    Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Anthropology, Stanford University

Education

  • 2009 
    Texas A&M University, PhD
  • 2003 
    Texas A&M University , MS
  • 1997 
    University of Kentucky, BA

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    Migrant worldviews and emergent ecological knowledge
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    National Science Foundation
  • 2019
    Tourism and the Human Relationship to The Environment: Galapagos Islands as a Microcosm
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Fulbright Scholar Program
  • 2018
    NRT-INFEWS: Landscape-U, Impactful partnerships among graduate students and managers for regenerative landscape design
    Role:
    Senior Personnel
    Funding Source:
    National Science Foundation

Professional Memberships

  • Society for Applied Anthropology
  • American Anthropological Association
  • American Association of Geographers