Associate Professor, Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, Pennsylvania State University
Carter Hunt is an Associate Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management at Pennsylvania State University. His professional interests focus on improving tourism’s capacity to support biodiversity conservation and sustainable community development. From 2009 to 2012 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Stanford’s Department of Anthropology and the Woods Institute for the Environment. During that time, he was also affiliated with the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) office at Stanford. From Penn State, he continues to collaborate on the Woods Institute’s Osa-Golfito Initiative, a project focusing on sustainable development in southwestern Costa Rica. He also continues to work alongside Professor Ardoin and Postdoctoral Scholar Mele Wheaton on their Environmental Ventures Project Facilitating Pro-Environmental Behavior: Leveraging Nature-Based Tourism into Everyday Stewardship. Carter earned his PhD and M.S. in the Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences Program at Texas A&M University and holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Kentucky.