Business, and Life-Style.”, and writes that the book “attempts to cover a lot of ground”. She further states that “Anyone with a fan's curiosity about comedians would likely find this book interesting.” In 1996, Stebbins published a book called “The Barbershop Singer: Inside the Social World of a Musical Hobby”. Stan Parker from University of Brighton calls the book “short but highly readable” and writes that the idea of the book is “well worth holding on to.” In The Serious Leisure Perspective (2020) Stebbins provides a synthesis of the 47 years of work on the SLP. The perspective’s growth has been fostered by its own website, established in 2006 in collaboration with Jenna Hartel. Of his 60 books published or in press, most center exclusively or substantially on one aspect or another of serious, casual, and project-based leisure. Awards and honors 1996 – Elected Fellow, Academy of Leisure Sciences 1996 - Distinguished Research Award, University of Calgary 1997 - Outstanding Contribution Award, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association 1999 – Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada 2003 - Marguerite Dentinger Prize, ACFA 2010 - Elected Senior Fellow and Founding Member, World Leisure Academy 2019 - Honorary Lifetime Member of the Leisure Studies Association References University of Calgary faculty Living people Macalester College alumni University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni 1938 births