Dr. Lauren Duffy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Clemson University
LAUREN DUFFY
Research Fellow, she/her
Dr. Lauren Duffy, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management at Clemson University. Her two major research areas that intersect under the umbrella of critical sustainable tourism: 1) tourism planning and development with a focus on how power dynamics influence stakeholder participation throughout a planning process, and 2) critical pedagogy and global learning.
Her research in tourism planning is informed by a social justice paradigm emphasis on gender and Race in tourism and how power influences the distribution of tourism impacts (i.e., understanding who benefits from tourism development projects). Her work has focused on rural communities in South and North Carolina, as well as contexts in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. She is also engaged in research exploring ways to help students to think critically and ethically, while fostering a sense of responsibility to address the grand social and environmental challenges of our time.
Expertise: Sustainability & Equity, People with Disabilities, LGBTQ + Gender, Feminist and critical theories within tourism and leisure; critical pedagogy; structural violence within travel and tourism
Contact: lduffy@clemson.edu
Selected Publications
Current Grants
Schwehr Family Global Service-Learning Endowment Program Development Grant ($100,000)
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium 2018-2020 – Social Carrying Capacity for Mariculture Development on the South Carolina Coast ($148,568)