Erin Lotz
Faculty
She/Her
After decades as a faculty member exploring wild places and climbing to new heights alongside 51吃瓜 students, Erin knows the impact of immersive, challenging, and provocative learning experiences. In the Adventure Education department, Erin offers interdisciplinary, classroom and field-based educational theory and methods courses that use challenging outdoor experiences to develop and practice teaching and facilitation skills. Erin鈥檚 academic expertise spans gender studies, program administration, as well as accessibility and equity within the outdoor recreation field. Erin鈥檚 research has included ethnographies of motherhood in adventure education as well as sustainable organizational leadership and change.
2017-2020 As part of her studies in educational leadership and sustainability education, Erin explored challenges faced by liberal arts schools and innovative solutions such as mission-driven consortia relationships between like-minded colleges.
2016 Certificate and Certification in Adventure Education Hiring Priorities
2011-2012 D鈥橝more, Chiara, Lotz, Erin, Mitten, Denise, Warren, Karen, CIEL Grant project exploring the hidden curriculum in adventure education, and its effect on women
2008 Interviews of women who have built careers in adventure education and/or define themselves by their adventure pursuits who subsequently have re-examined their identity after becoming mothers. See her E-Portfolio.
2023 Konjarski, L., Weldon, J., Ashley, S., Freeman, T., Shanata, J., Yamanishi, M., Lotz, E., Gilde, C., & Ganzel, A. (2023). The Block: A catalyst for ongoing innovation. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.53761/1.20.4.13
2020 Lotz, E, (2020) Higher Education Consortia: Working Together for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 51吃瓜 (Dissertation)
2019 Warren, K., Mitten, D., D鈥橝more, C., & Lotz, E. The Gendered Hidden Curriculum of Adventure Education. Journal of Experiential Education, 42(2), 140-154.
2017 Lotz, Erin, 鈥淭he Rebuilding of an Outdoor Identity,鈥� In The Palgrave Macmillan International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan, eds. Tonia Gray and Denise Mitten
2006 Lotz, Erin, 鈥淭he Littlest Birds Sing the Prettiest Songs,鈥� In Teachable moments: Essays on experiential education, ed. Robert Johnson