Antonio López Peláez is University Full Professor of Social Work and Social Services at the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, of UNED, the largest Spanish Public University.  PhD in Philosophy and Sociology. Among his research interests:  analysis of social problems of interculturality, methods of social intervention, intersections of new technologies and social work. He has been visiting scholar at the School of Social Welfare (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Universidad Americana (Managua, Nicaragua), and at the School of Social Work (Western Michigan University, USA).

Dr. Floersch is an associate professor of social work at Rutgers University. He earned a  master's degree in social work from the University of Kansas and a doctorate degree in social work from the University of Chicago. He sees adolescents, young adults, adults, couples and families. He has 45 years of clinical experience and practices psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Floersch has worked in outpatient substance abuse, hospital emergency rooms, and outpatient mental health centers. He has several books and numerous articles on mental health.

Dr. Longhofer is an associate professor of social work at Rutgers University. He holds graduate degrees in anthropology and social work. He did  postgraduate training in child development and psychoanalysis and adult psychoanalysis at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and the Hanna Perkins Center. He practices psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Longhofer has published several books and many articles. He works with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. Dr. Longhofer has a specific specialty in day-care, school and parent consultation.

Joseph E. Davis is a Research Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director of Research at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.

He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Virginia. Prior to returning to graduate school, he was director of a human rights group and program director of a charitable foundation.

Professor Davis's research centers on questions of self and morality, psychiatric classification and medicalization, narrative and bioethics. He is the author of Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and editor of Identity and Social Change (Transaction, 2000) and Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements (SUNY Press, 2002). His articles on issues of identity, victimization, technology, memory, and narrative have appeared in Social Problems, Qualitative Sociology, Society, The Hedgehog Review, and others.

David Levine is Emeritus Professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Scholarship from the Colorado Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has published extensively in economics, political economy, and applied psychoanalysis, most recently: The Capacity for Ethical Conduct (2013), Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World (2017), Dark Fantasy: Regressive Movements and the Search for Meaning in Politics (2018), The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self (with Matthew Bowker, 2019), and Depending on Strangers: Inner Freedom, Memory, and the Unknown Self (2021). He lives in Santa Fe, NM.

Ann Kuckelman Cobb

Ann has had the good fortune to become acquainted with and practice three different professions.  The first is nursing, the second, anthropology, and the third, art making.  A nursing program at Marymount College, Salina, Kansas, gave her the initial skills to provide nursing care not only at home in the USA but also as a one-year volunteer in the city of Belêm do Parâ, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon in 1964-1965.  These experiences piqued her interest in health beliefs and behaviors from different cultures, which led her to accept a federal grant that supported her study of anthropology at the University of Kansas, where she received a Ph.D. in 1979.  She then taught medical anthropology at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, and Transcultural Nursing and Qualitative Research Methods at the University of Kansas School of Nursing. 

Martha grew up on the shores of NJ, and now lives on the shores of New York in Rockaway Park, Queens. After graduating from Rutgers with a BA in English and an MA in Education, she moved to New York and has been working at an education company called Cambridge Coaching for the past five years. She is still an avid consumer and an occasional writer of poetry.

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