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Carla A Santos

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Contact Information

104 Huff Hall
Associate Professor

Research Interests

Socio-cultural and political aspects of tourism.The personalized worlds of experience guided by tourism representations.The ideological forces that shape and organize tourism representations.

Research Description

Dr. Santos is the co-director of the Tourism Lab for Economic and Social Behavior Research. She serves on the editorial boards of Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Culture and Communication, and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Her research program is focused on the examination of communicative practices (from mass mediated narratives to the face-to-face dyad) as a means of addressing the socio-political and cultural impact of tourism on the world's people and cultures.

Education

Ph.D., Mass Communications, Pennsylvania State University, 2002

Courses Taught

RST 330 - Leisure and Consumer Culture
RST 351 Social and Cultural Aspects of Tourism development
RST 530 Critical Issues in Tourism

Additional Campus Affiliations

Interim Associate Dean, College of Applied Health Sciences
Professor, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives
Professor, European Union Center
Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recent Publications

Du, X., Liechty, T., Santos, C. A., & Park, J. (2022). ‘I want to record and share my wonderful journey’: Chinese Millennials’ production and sharing of short-form travel videos on TikTok or Douyin. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(21), 3412-3424. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1810212

Milazzo, L., & Santos, C. A. (2022). Fanship and imagination: The transformation of everyday spaces into Lieux D'Imagination. Annals of Tourism Research, 94, Article 103399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103399

Kim, S., Park, S., Santos, C. A., & Shinew, K. J. (2021). (Re)negotiating authenticity through virtual travel: a case study of Law of the Jungle, a Korean reality travel program. In S. Kim, & S. Pan (Eds.), Visual Media and Tourism (pp. 127-143). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169413-9

Park, J., An, J., Stodolska, M., & Santos, C. A. (2021). Transnational leisure, ethnic identity conflict and life satisfaction among fourth-generation young adult Korean ethnic minority in China. Journal of Leisure Research, 52(4), 446-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.1880874

Kim, S., Park, S., Santos, C. A., & Shinew, K. J. (2018). (Re)negotiating authenticity through virtual travel: a case study of Law of the Jungle, a Korean reality travel program. Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, 35(3), 348-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2017.1318735

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