KLEIBER, DOUGLAS A. Elected 1987. Ph.D., Texas, 1972. Professor and Head, Recreation and Leisure Studies, Georgia.

After 12 years as a member and then Director of the Leisure Behavior Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Dr. Kleiber became Department Head at the University of Georgia in 1989. A developmental/educational psychologist by training, Dr. Kleiber has published over 90 articles and chapters on the motivational and developmental concomitants of leisure and sport involvement. In 1994 he received the Allen V. Sapora Research Award for this work. He has examined the role of leisure in the transitions from adolescence to adulthood and work to retirement and its significance in coping with various disabilities. He has been an Associate Editor of both Leisure Sciences and the Journal of Leisure Research and is a past President of the Academy. His book Leisure Experience and Human Development was recently published by Westview Press/Basic Books (1999), and he is also a coauthor of A Social Psychology of Leisure with Roger Mannell (Venture Publishing, Inc., 1997).