Mazhar Bagli (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He is currently serving as the chair of the sociology and psychology departments. He has numerous papers on anomie, suicide and urbanization.

Susan A. McDaniel (Ph.D.) is a sociologist/social demographer whose research interests include gender, ageing, social policy, population health, family change, and social impacts of technology. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta where she has taught since 1989. Recent publications include: ‘Born at the right time’: Gendered generations and webs of entitlement and responsibility, Canadian Journal of Sociology (2001); Women’s changing relations to the state and citizenship: Caring and intergenerational relations in globalizing western democracies, Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology (2002); Bugs in the intergenerational ointment, Canadian Journal of Sociology (2002); Gender and social cohesion: Reflections on tendencies and tensions, Canadian Journal of Sociology (2003).

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She has numerous books and papers on violence against women. Her most current book is about women who have left their abusive partners (Fleeing the House of Horrors, University of Toronto Press, 2002). She is currently conducting an SSHRC funded research on violence against women in southeastern Turkey and serving as the general editor of Women’s Health & Urban Life journal and special issue editor of Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology (2003) and Violence Against Women (2004) journals.

Andréa Riesch Toepell (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University, Ontario. She teaches and does research in the field of women’s health, population health, gender and health, violence as a determinant of health among women, aging women in sport, and HIV/AIDS and vulnerable populations.

Ingrid Waldron (Ph.D.) graduated from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto in 2002 with a doctorate in Education. Her doctoral thesis examines the psychological impact of oppression on African Canadian women, psychiatric imperialism, Afrocentric psychology, and African indigenous knowledge in mental health.

The Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal is generously funded by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation and is permanently housed at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto. The founder and the first general editor is Aysan Sev'er, University of Toronto.