Patrizia Albanese (Ph.D.) Is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto. She teaches and does research in the areas of gender and families, as well as sociology of children and childhood, and race and ethnic relations. She has been researching and publishing in the area of women, families and nationalism for a number of years.

Maureen Baker (Ph.D.) heads the Sociology Department at the University of Auckland in New Zealand but spent the first 25 years of her career in Canada, most recently at McGill University. She is the author of numerous books and articles relating to family trends, comparative family policies, women and work, and welfare to work issues.)

Stephanie Brooks is the program advisor in the Department of Sport Management in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University, Ontario. She also teaches for several departments in the Faculty in areas related to leisure and aging, therapeutic benefits of humour, healthy communities, and health promotion. Professor Brooks is
an avid rower who has enjoyed Masters rowing as a coxswain, rowing in competitions for pairs and singles.

Joshua Fogel (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Business and Behavioural Sciences in the Department of Economics at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Fogel studies the psychological impact of Internet use, breast cancer coping mechanisms, and the experiences among women from a variety of ethnic groups and how they cope with breast cancer.

Ann Marie Guilmette (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, and in the Women Studies program at Brock University, Ontario. Her research areas include social psychological dimensions of leisure for disadvantaged populations especially her focus pertains to children’s play and humour, women and aging, such adult forms of leisure as humour and gambling, addictions and leisure education.

Victoria Mock (DNSc, FAAN) is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Nursing Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mock collaborates on mulitidisciplinary biobehavioural research with emphasis on clinical outcomes related to symptom management, quality-of-life, and coping/adaptation in cancer patients and their families.

Phyllis D. Morgan (Ph.D., APRN, BC) is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Morgan studies the unique cultural experiences among African American women experiencing chronic illness. She has presented at several national
conferences on the breast cancer experience of African American women.

Linda Rose (Ph.D., RN) is an Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Rose has expertise in conducting qualitative studies with patients and families coping with chronic illness. She has published extensively on family and family-related topics related to vulnerable populations.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She teaches sociology of gender and family and writes extensively on sexual harassment, intimate partner abuse of women, link between separation and violence, cross-cultural forms of wife abuse and extreme violence against women such as “honour killings”. Her latest
book on women who have left their abusive partners (Fleeing the House of Horrors, University of Toronto Press) has received the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award (2004). She is also the founder and the general editor of Women’s Health & Urban Life journal.

Andréa Riesch Toepell (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences 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 woman, aging and women in sport, and HIV/AIDS among vulnerable populations.

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.