Rate My Professor Jeff Rose

Jeff Rose, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah, where he joined in 2015 as an Assistant Professor-Lecturer and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. He also holds affiliate faculty positions with the Global Change and Sustainability Center and the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program. Rose earned his Ph.D. in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism from the University of Utah between 2007 and 2012. Prior to his current role, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at Davidson College from 2013 to 2015.

Rose's research agenda centers on productions of social and environmental injustice through interlocking systemic inequities associated with class, race, political economy, and relationships to nonhuman nature. He investigates issues such as public space, productions of nature, connection to place, neoliberalism, and non-normative behaviors, with empirical focus on homelessness across the urban-wildland interface, illegal marijuana production on federal lands, place attachment in outdoor environments, and white privilege in outdoor education. His methodological approach integrates qualitative and spatial methods. Notable publications include "Contextualizing reliability and validity in qualitative research: Toward more rigorous and trustworthy qualitative social science in leisure research" (2020, Leisure Sciences), "White privilege in experiential education: A critical reflection" (2012, Leisure Sciences), "Cleansing public nature: Landscapes of homelessness, health, and displacement" (2017), and "Ontologies of socioenvironmental justice: Homelessness and the production of social natures" (2014). In 2022, he received a Nature and Human Health-Utah Group Awards Pilot Grant for the project "Homelessness, Health, and Nature: A Community-Based Research Partnership." Rose teaches courses in political ecology, critical social theory, wilderness, qualitative research methods, environmental social studies research methods, leadership, youth development, and people, place, and the environment, incorporating community-engaged learning with underrepresented communities. His work has over 4,000 citations on Google Scholar.