CURRICULUM VITAE

November 2, 2022

EDUCATION

PhD Candidate in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Graduation December 2022).

Advisor: Dr. Carla Santos

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M.A. of Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage (2015)

SOAS, University of London

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B.A. of History (2012)

School of Arts, Education, and Humanities, Keene State College

PUBLICATIONS

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Milazzo, L. and Santos, S. (2022). Fanship and Imagination: the Transformation of Everyday Spaces into Lieux D’Imagination. Annals of Tourism.

Manuscripts in Review

Yeager, E., Soulard, J., Deale, C., and Milazzo, L. (Under Review). Building Rural Resilience with Peer-to-Peer Accommodations. Target: Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Milazzo, L. (Under Review). Why do we return?: Developing a liminoid model. Target: Leisure Sciences.

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Manuscripts in Preparation

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Milazzo, L. (anticipated submission date: January, 2023). Uses and Gratifications in Media Tourism. Target journal: Annals of Tourism Research.

Milazzo, L. (anticipated submission date: March, 2023). Phenomenological Research in Tourism Studies. Target journal: Sociological Methodology

SELECTED CONFERENCES

Milazzo, L. (2021, June). Engaging Tourists Through Brand Community. Travel and Tourism Research Association, Dallas, TX.

Milazzo, L. (2021, April). Fanship, Imagination, and Experience. Worlds of Imagination, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Milazzo, L. (2020, February). Investigating Media Tourism as Secular Ritual. The Academy of Leisure Sciences, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

Milazzo, L. (2019, February). Myth, Magic and Tourism: A Structural Analysis of Harry Potter and the Hero with a Thousand Faces. Southwest Popular American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM.

Milazzo, L. (2018, February). Momentarily Magical: Tourist Experiences at Platform 9 ¾. Southwest Popular American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Milazzo, L. (2021, February). Teaching in the Times of COVID. In the Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Milazzo, L. (2020, October). Conducting Netnographic Research During COVID-19. In Department of Communications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

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Milazzo, L. (2020, November). How to Become an Effective Teacher. In RST Graduate Seminar. In Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Milazzo, L. (2019, October; 2020, February). Introduction to Diversity, Inclusion, and Tolerance. Orientation to Recreation, Sport, and Tourism. In Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Milazzo, L. (2018, February) Harry Potter and Places of the Imagination.  In the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Undergraduate Course(s):

• Leisure and Consumer Culture (Fall 2022)

• Communications in Recreation, Sport and Tourism (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022)

• Diversity in Recreation, Sport and Tourism (Spring 2021)

• Foundations of Tourism (Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)

• Nature and American Culture (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018)

Graduate Course(s):

• Strategic Management (Summer 2022)

• Events Management (Summer 2021)

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Instructional Design, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois (Summer, 2022):

• Led a team to design a general education course on leisure and consumer culture. Used scaffolding to ensure the curriculum met all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.
• Applied specialized research knowledge as well as generally applicable concepts. Leveraged college and departmental resources to create timely content.

Created the online course webpage through Canvas, the university's preferred Learning Management System.