Dr. Carter Hunt
Senior Personnel
Carter Hunt is an Associate Professor in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, and Anthropology, and a co-chair of the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment Dual Doctoral Degree Program at Penn State. His teaching and research through the ecotourismology lab focuses on the impact of tourism on biodiversity conservation, sustainable community development efforts, and rural livelihoods around parks and protected areas in the biodiverse tropics of Latin America and East Africa. He also leverages an interest in conservation psychology into research on the ways that different forms of nature-based travel influences pro-environmental behavior, including conservation philanthropy. He recently received a Fulbright Scholar Award to collaborate on these research interests with the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos Islands. Additional information can be found at: https://sites.psu.edu/carterahunt/