New Faculty - College of Human Services

Cari E. Autry
Assistant Professor, Department of Recreation and Tourism Management
Cari Autry received her Ph.D. in health and human performance from the University of Florida . Her dissertation was titled, “Exploring the voices of the Glenview neighborhood: An ecological approach to studying at-risk youth, recreation, and community social organization.” She received her M.S. in recreation administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Prior to coming to ASU at the West campus, Dr. Autry was an assistant professor at the University of Florida for two years where she taught courses related to recreation and people with disabilities, leisure education, and therapeutic recreation and served on several master’s and doctoral committees. Her research interests include recreation as a means for community development in relation to youth development and the needs of at-risk youth. To guide such research she is interested in the theoretical frameworks of the ecological perspective and social capital. Her research has been presented at national and international conferences related to leisure, social capital, and youth development. Dr. Autry has published in refereed journals such as the Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Sociology of Sport Journal, and Leisure/Loisir. She serves on several committees of the National Recreation and Park Association, as an accreditation visitor for the Council on Accreditation, and as associate editor of the Therapeutic Recreation Journal.

David R. Hodge
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work
David R. Hodge obtained his Ph.D. in social work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis where he specialized in spirituality and religion. He joins ASU from the University of Pennsylvania and remains affiliated with that institution as a senior non-resident fellow in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society. Dr. Hodge developed a new measurement approach–phrase completions–which appears in the Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (Academic Press, 2005). His research appears in a number of scholarly forums, including recent articles in Social Work, Social Work Research, Arete, Families in Society, the Journal of Social Work Education, and the Journal of Social Service Research.