In the following biographical sketches, each member's name is followed by: (1) the year elected to the Academy (Founders were elected in 1980); (2) highest earned degree, degree-granting institution, and year granted; and (3) current or (if retired) last professional position and location.

In noting professional service and accomplishment, several organization titles are abbreviated as they occur frequently. Full titles are as follows:

Dr. Allen's primary research interests focus on the development of community tourism and recreation services and their impacts on the social, cultural, and economic well-being of communities. He has been involved with an ongoing effort to document these impacts in well over 150 communities during the last 15 years. This effort has provided valuable information in understanding tourism and recreation impacts, especially in rural areas and small communities. Most recently Dr. Allen has been involved with the development of guidelines and management principles for nature-based tourism enterprises and the development of a benefits-based leisure service delivery system. Additional interests include the study of management principles in recreation and tourism and the application of leisure services as a social and community development medium. Prior to joining Clemson, Dr. Allen was Head of the Department of Leisure Studies, University of Illinois and previous to that, Chair, Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, Temple University. He was the President of the Academy of Leisure Sciences for 1994-95. He also served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration and was a member of the Board of Directors of SPRE.

Maria T. Allison completed both her bachelor's and master of science degrees at the University of New Mexico. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, with a specialization in Sociology of Sport. Having been raised in the Southwest, Dr. Allison spent her early professional years teaching high school and working with Navajo, Zuni, and Hispanic youth in New Mexico. This early experience led to her life-long research interest in ethnicity, intercultural relations, and the nature of cultural differences in play, sport, and leisure. Her current work focuses on the ways in which human service agencies erect institutional barriers to program access for diverse populations. Professor Allison has had her work published in more than ten countries. She is the former Chair of her Department and also served as the President of the International Committee for Sociology of Sport of the International Sociological Association. She is a former associate editor of Leisure Sciences. She regularly teaches a large introductory campus-wide course entitled "Leisure and the quality of life," graduate seminars on "Research methods" and "Social psychological perspectives on leisure," and a new seminar course entitled "Leisure, diversity, and the community."

Dr. Austin's research focuses upon the social psychology of leisure and upon therapeutic recreation. Topics of over 100 publications include attitudes toward serving persons with disabilities, burnout, and therapeutic recreation curricula. He is the author or co-author of four widely used textbooks: Therapeutic Recreation Processes and Techniques (5th edition); Inclusive and Special Recreation: Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (5th edition); Therapeutic Recreation: An Introduction (3rd edition); and Conceptual Foundations for Therapeutic Recreation. Dr. Austin has served on editorial boards for the Journal of Leisure Research, Schole, Annual in Therapeutic Recreation and Leisure Today. He is a Past President of SPRE and ATRA and a past member of the NRPA Board of Trustees. He is the only individual to have received the NTRS Distinguished Service Award, the ATRA Distinguished Fellow Award, and the SPRE Distinguished Fellow Award. He has been awarded Indiana University's highest teaching award, the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has been named to the Union College Hall of Fame and was presented the Brightbill Award by the University of Illinois. In 1998, Dr. Austin received the NRPA Literary Award.

Dr. Bannon's interests and publications, including his most recent book, Current Issues in Leisure Services, focus on planning and administration. His contributions to the literature include service as Founding Co-Editor, Journal of Parkand Recreation Administration and Founder and President of Sagamore Publications. Dr. Bannon has received Distinguished Fellow Awards from SPRE and from APRS, and NRPA's National Literary Award and Distinguished Professional Award, among others. He has served as officer or board member of several national park and recreation organizations and is also a Founder of AAPRA.

Dr. Barnett-Morris's principal research interests are children's play and its relationship to cognitive and emotional development, the design of play environments, and play methodology. She has recently edited Research About Leisure, and has authored numerous scholarly book chapters and research articles about children's play. She has given numerous presentations at professional research meetings and symposia. Dr. Barnett-Morris is Co-Founder, Leisure Research Symposium; Executive Board Member, Play Research International; a Past-President and member, Board of Directors, SPRE; member, Board of Directors, The Association for the Study of Play; Associate Editor of Leisure Sciences and the Journal of Leisure Research; and member, NRPA Research Committee. She received a Presidential Service Award and two Distinguished Service Awards from SPRE, was awarded a Snell Foundation Visiting Professorial Chair, and was elected to Outstanding Young Women of America.

Dr. Becker joined Clemson as Director, Regional Resources Development Institute, in 1981. Since that time he has been involved in resource management and impact assessment issues, and social and community impact assessment projects in the Mississippi River Basin and the Southeast. He is currently involved in rural development and rural tourism programs in South Carolina and has served as a resource person with the Commission for the Future of South Carolina. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Downtown Development Association, Co-Founder of the South Carolina Foundation for Rural Revitalization, and a Fellow of the Strom Thurmond Institute for Government and Public Affairs at Clemson.

Deb Bialeschki is a professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research interests have focused primarily on issues related to women's leisure, outdoor recreation, and human development through the organized camp experience. She has presented her work at state, national, and international conferences as well as published in a variety of research journals. She has co-authored several books, including Both Gains and Gaps (with Henderson, Shaw, and Freysinger), Evaluation of Leisure Services (with Henderson), and Introduction to Leisure Services (with Henderson, Hodges, Hemingway, and Kivel). She has served the profession in a variety of ways, including president of SPRE, co-chair of NRPA's Leisure Research Symposium, secretary of the AAHPERD Research Consortium, Chair of the National Standards Board of the American Camping Association, Editor of Schole, and associate editor of the Journal of Leisure Research and the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. She has been honored to receive the ACA National Honor Award, ACA Special Recognition Award, and a SPRE President's Recognition Award. She has also been recognized for her teaching at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a prestigious Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching presented by the Chancellor.

Dr. Brantley, Professor Emeritus, Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Clemson, was that department's first Head, serving for 21 years. His scholarly interests focus upon the ethics of resource allocation and environmental management. Dr. Brantley has served as President of NRPA and SPRE, Chair of the NRPA-AALR Council on Accreditation, and is also a member of AAPRA. He has served as member of the Health Education Authority of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, member of the South Carolina Commission for Parks, Recreation and Tourism, and member and Chairman of the Pendleton District Historical and Recreation Commission. He serves on the Board of Directors of Textile Hall, Inc., which operates the Palmetto International Exposition Hall in Greenville, SC.

Since 1970, Dr. Brown has served as a Professor of recreation behavior and planning, and forest policy at Utah State, Colorado State, Oregon State, and Montana. In 1994, he became the Dean of the School of Forestry at The University of Montana, where he is responsible for programs in natural resource recreation, wildlife biology, forest resources, rangeland resources and wilderness. His research career has centered on understanding the behavior of recreationists and in developing ideas for management, including (with others) the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum and Benefits-Based Approaches to recreation planning and management. Dr. Brown has taught both undergraduate and graduate students and produced 44 M.S. graduates and 11 Ph.D.s. He has published over 125 papers, books, book chapters, and reports, and is a frequent speaker at workshops and symposia both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Bultena studies environmental/natural resource issues, with a special interest in public values toward nature and value conflicts, "people problems" in natural resources management, and social factors affecting public decision making about resources. He has a long-standing interest in issues of social carrying capacity on wildlands. He also studies the social impacts of proposed natural resource projects and policies. His current research is exploring social impacts of farmers' adoption of sustainable farming systems. He also is interested in the social impacts of new technologies, and is presently investigating rural community impacts of recent advances in telecommunications. In 1988, he received the Excellence in Research Award from the Rural Sociological Society, and was recently honored with a Faculty Citation from the Iowa State Alumni Association. He is a recent past-president of the ISU chapter of Sigma Xi.

Dr. Burch has taught at Syracuse, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Victoria (New Zealand) and has held professional posts with the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service. He has worked on forestry and environmental management problems in regions throughout the U.S. and in New Zealand, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, Japan and Western Europe. His research interests include leisure and social bonds, energy and social structure, social change and land use, and natural resources education. Applied dimensions of his research are recognized by consultancies with public and private organizations of national and international scope. Among his 14 authored or edited books are The Social Organization of Leisure in Human Society, Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the American Environment, and Community and Forestry: Continuities in the Sociology of Natural Resources.

Rabel J. Burdge is currently a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he teaches courses on environmental sociology and social impact assessment. He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he held tenure appointments from 1976 to 1996 in the Institute for Environmental Studies and the Departments of Agricultural Economics (Rural Sociology), Leisure Studies (Parks and Recreation) and Urban and Regional Planning. He spent the winter and spring terms of 2002 as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Centre, University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. In 2003, Burdge edited a double issue of the international journal, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal Volume, 21 (2&3) titled, "The Practice of Social Impact Assessment” and is completing the 3rd edition of his two textbooks: The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment and A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment, both published by the Social Ecology Press of Middleton, Wisconsin. Educated at Penn State (Ph.D.) and Ohio State Universities (B.S. and M.S.), Burdge has served on the faculties of the University of Kentucky (Lexington), University of Washington (Seattle), and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs (active military duty). Burdge has also held the following appointments: Beginning in 1986, Honorary Professor in the School of Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; In 1984 a resident professor, Department of Western Sociology, University of Wageningen, the Agricultural University of The Netherlands; In 1986 Burdge was the recipient of the Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), Australia School of Environmental Studies visiting scholar award. He has written over 300 scholarly articles and papers on social change in rural communities, natural resource and environmental issues, needs assessment surveys, the use of public involvement in the resource decision making process, the social and economic impacts of development projects, the sitting of hazardous and conventional waste facilities as well as natural resource recreation management. In addition to the above books, Burdge is author of Coping with Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of the Lake Shelbyville Reservoir, and co-author of Social Change in Rural Societies: A Rural Sociology Textbook, 3rd Edition. He is former editor of the Journal of Leisure Research and founding co-editor of both Leisure Sciences: an Interdisciplinary Journal and Society and Natural Resources: an International Journal. Burdge has served as Vice-President and was nominated in 1989 for President of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS). From 1994-2000 he was Treasurer and editor of The Rural Sociologist for RSS. He was the 1988 recipient of the RSS Natural Resources Research Award for contributions to the sociology of natural resources. In August of 1996, was named Distinguished Rural Sociologist, the highest honor given by the Rural Sociological Society. In 1990 he was elected the President of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and in 1994 received from IAIA the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Award for outstanding contributions to the field of impact assessment. Burdge received the 1982 Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Award for Excellence in Recreation, Park and Conservation Research given by the National Recreation and Park Association and in 1995 the George B. Hartzog, Jr. Award given by Clemson University for contributions to environmental and conservation research.

Dr. Burton has served as consultant to the Governments of Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, to the Governments of Alberta, Ontario, and Yukon, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and the United Nations Center for Leisure and Education. Among his books are Experiments in Recreation Research, Natural Resource Policy in Canada, and Making Man's Environment: Leisure. He is co-editor (with Ed Jackson) of Understanding Leisure and Recreation: Mapping the Past, Charting the Future and Leisure Studies: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century, and has served as Editor, Alberta Journal of Planning Practice, Associate Editor, Leisure Sciences and the Journal of Leisure Research, and member, Editorial Board, Leisure Studies. Dr. Burton was the first President, Canadian Association for Leisure Studies, later serving another term, and is member, Board of Directors, WLRA. His principal research interests lie in the policy foundations of recreation and leisure service provision.

Much of Linda Caldwell's research has centered around adolescents, leisure and health; she is particularly interested in leisure education and the developmental affordances of leisure. Currently, she is the lead investigator on a NIDA funded substance use prevention program that helps middle school youth learn to use their leisure time wisely. She also is involved with several international projects (Santiago, Chile; Cape Town, South Africa; Lome, Togo) that focus on developing youth competencies, healthy lifestyles and democratic behavior through leisure. Linda has been an associate editor for Journal of Leisure Research, Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Schole, and Journal of Applied Recreation Research. She recently served as guest editor for the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration special issue on Youth and Leisure (2000), and is currently the guest editor for a special issue of Therapeutic Recreation Journal on youth. Currently she sits on the Board of Directors for the Society of Park and Recreation Educators and the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies, and is a member of the World Leisure Association. In 2001, she was the recipient of the NTRS Professional Research Award. She loves gardening, photography, scuba diving, all outdoor activities, and traveling

Garry Chick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Purdue University and a Doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the Department of Leisure Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981 and moved to his present position at Penn State in January, 1999. Dr. Chick is also a faculty member at the World Leisure and Recreation Association International Center of Excellence in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Dr. Chick's principal research interests are in the areas of leisure and culture, expressive culture, and work and leisure. Dr. Chick was president of The Association for the Study of Play in 1992-93 and  the president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research in 1999-2000. He was the founding editor of the journal, Play & Culture, and is a past editor-in-chief of Leisure Sciences.

Dr. Christensen's academic interest is in the area of quantitative analysis of recreation behavior, research methodology and environmental issues. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Leisure Research, Leisure Sciences, the Research Quarterly, the Journal of Environmental Education, and Wetlands Research. Dr. Christensen has authored or co-authored chapters in three books. He has been Associate Editor and Book Review Editor, Journal of Leisure Research. He served as Editor, Journal of Leisure Research, from 1986 to 1989 and received special recognition from NRPA for "Outstanding Leadership and Service" to the journal in 1989 for his work as Editor. He also has served multiple terms as an Associate Editor for Leisure Sciences.

COALTER, FRED. Elected 2004. Ph.D., Leeds Metropolitan, 2002. Professor, Sports Studies, Stirling (Scotland).

Dr. Fred Coalter previously was the Director of the Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies at the University of North London and Director of the Centre for Leisure Research at the University of Edinburgh. In these roles he undertook a wide range of research and provided advice for a variety of UK government bodies, serving on a range of working groups and committees. He is currently, a member/expert advisor of the Scottish Executive’s Physical Activity and Health Council. In addition to his general interests in all aspects of leisure policy, he has particular interests in participation trends, the pricing of public leisure services and the definition and measurement of the social impacts of leisure services (especially sport). He is also involved directly in the delivery of leisure services, being Chairman of the Board of Directors of Edinburgh Leisure, the trust company which manages sport and recreation facilities on behalf of the City of Edinburgh. He is also Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management, a member of the Editorial Board of Managing Leisure: An International Journal and a former editor of Leisure Studies.

Dr. Compton is former Dean, College of Health, University of Utah, and former Department Chair at Missouri-Columbia and North Texas State University. He has served as President of NTRS and the National Consortium on Physical Education and Recreation for Individuals with Disabilities. In addition he has served on the Board of Directors of SPRE, and the National Alliance for Accessible Golf. He has secured grants for research and training, including a seminal grant leading to the development of the Leisure Diagnostic Battery. In 1993 he served as Visiting Scholar in Residence at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia and in 1997 returned to serve as Visiting Scholar in Residence with the Allied Health Professions at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently directing grants on social inclusion for people with disabilities from the United States Golf Association, the PGA and PGA Tour. As well, along with Gary Ellis, the Utah Department of Human Resources has contracted with them to develop a long term care decision making model using MAUT. Dr. Compton has served in many capacities for NRPA, including Director of Research, and has published a number of articles in Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Adaptive Physical Activity Quarterly, Journal of Sports Medicine, and other journals. He has published several books including Issues in Therapeutic Recreation: A Profession in Transition (First & Second Edition), Leisure and Mental Health (with Seppo Iso-Ahola), and Leisure Counseling (with Judith Goldstein).

In addition to being Project Leader, Dr. Cordell is the Forest Service's National Assessment Specialist for Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness. He has been or is currently special research consultant to numerous national organizations and committees and has held offices and committee assignments for a number of national, regional and state organizations. He has authored or co-authored about 100 articles, chapters and other publications and given an even larger number of presentations to research or professional groups. He is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of American Foresters, and other groups. He was awarded NRPA's National Research (Roosevelt) Award in 1989.

Dr. Crompton's primary interests are in marketing and financing public leisure services, and tourism. He has authored or co-authored five books and a substantial number of articles in the leisure, tourism and marketing fields and directed scores of studies for recreation resource and service providing agencies. Dr. Crompton has conducted numerous two-and three-day workshops on marketing leisure services and has lectured in a number of foreign countries. On seven occasions he has delivered the keynote address at the respective nations' annual national conferences. Dr. Crompton is a Past-President of SPRE, the Texas Recreation and Park Society, and the American Academy of Park and Recreation Administration, and a recipient of NRPA's National Literary Award, the Roosevelt Research Award, and the Travel and Tourism Research Association Travel Research Award, among many others.

Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's contributions to leisure sciences include an empirically-based model of enjoyment (flow) and the experience sampling technique (ESM) using pagers. Since authoring Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1976), his books have been translated into sixteen languages and his (1990) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience was a Book of the Month, Quality Paperback, and Psychology Book Club selection. His latest titles include Finding Flow (1997) and (with Susan Jackson) Flow in Sport (1999). Dr. Csikszentmihalyi serves on several boards and commissions for the Department of Labor, Department of Education, Social Science Research Council, and others; has served on Editorial Boards and reviews manuscripts for journals of psychology, sociology, anthropology and other disciplines; and has held visiting professorships at universities in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Italy and Finland; in 1999 he was a Foreign Visiting Scholar of the British Psychological Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a Doctor of Sciences honoris causa. The 1990 recipient of NRPA's National Research (Roosevelt) award, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi has received two Senior Fulbright Fellowships.