Stebbins, Robert A.

Robert A. Stebbins

Robert A. Stebbins, born in the U.S.A. in 1938, received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1964 from the Univ. of Minnesota. He has taught in the departments of sociology at Presbyterian College (1964-65), Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland (1965-73), the Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1973-76), and the Univ. of Calgary (1976 to the present). He is now appointed as Faculty Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was also head of department at Calgary (6 years) and Memorial (3 years). He taught at WICE in 1992, 1993, and 1998-2003 and was member of its Program Committee (2000-2004). In addition, Dr. Stebbins has served as President of the Social Science Federation of Canada in 1991-1992, after having served as President of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association in 1988-1989. He was also Vice-President of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies (1993-96) and elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences (1997) and the Royal Society of Canada (1999). Dr. Stebbins became a Canadian citizen in 1980, and has since become fully bilingual in French and English. Dr. Stebbins's research interests in leisure date to late 1973, the year he began his theoretical work on amateurs. Stebbins's serious leisure consists of playing in a jazz trio (on double bass), volunteering in Calgary's francophone community, and hiking and snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies. For casual leisure he dines out in Calgary's restaurants and visits with family and friends.

Last Update : 2011-03-25