Robert A. Stebbins is an author, researcher and an academic. He is Professor Emeritus at University of Calgary and Associate Editor for Leisure and Voluntaristics Review: Brill Research Perspectives. Stebbins has published more than 300 research articles and is the author of 60 books and monographs. Most of his work in leisure studies has centered on amateurs, hobbyists, career volunteers, serious and casual leisure and the serious leisure perspective. Stebbins is the former President of Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and Social Science Federation of Canada. He is the recipient of Outstanding Contribution Award by Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and Marguerite Dentinger Prize by ACFA. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999. Education Stebbins did his bachelor's degree from Macalester College in 1961 and then completed his master's degree and doctoral studies in sociology from University of Minnesota in 1962 and 1964 respectively. Career Right after his Ph.D., Stebbins was appointed as associate professor of sociology at Presbyterian College, where he taught for a year before teaching at Memorial University of Newfoundland as an Assistant Professor from 1965 till 1968. For the next three years, Stebbins served as associate professor and head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and then taught as a professor from 1971 till 1973. He joined University of Texas at Arlington as a professor of sociology for a three-year term. In 1976, Stebbins moved from the US to Canada and joined University of Calgary as head of the Department of Sociology till 1982 and then taught as a professor till 1999. In 2000, he was promoted to faculty professor and then to professor emeritus of sociology. Stebbins served as president of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association from 1987 till 1990 and Social Science Federation of Canada from 1990 till 1993. From 1997 till 2002, Stebbins was associated with World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) as a board director. He became a senior fellow of the World Leisure Academy and vice president of the Research Committee 13 (sociology of leisure) at International Sociological Association in 2010. Research and work Stebbins has conducted extensive qualitative research on humor, work, leisure, the work and leisure dimensions of deviance, and the leisure basis of francophone communities outside Quebec. Most of his work in leisure studies has centered on amateurs, hobbyists, career volunteers, serious and casual leisure and the serious leisure perspective (SLP),