Mazhar Bagli (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. His interests are in ethnic identity and ethnic relations and traditional societies and social change.

Shelley Z. Reuter (Ph.D.) is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. Her interests include disease and cultural classifications; medical racialism and genetics; feminism; contemporary theory and embodiment. Narrating Social Order, her book on the cultural implications of agoraphobia, psychiatric diagnosis and sociocultural categories, is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. Her current research is on medical racialism with a specific focus on the history of Tay-Sachs disease.

Preet Rustagi (Ph.D.) is currently working as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India. She has been working on labour, gender and development issues for the past 10 years. Her recent research interests include gender development indicators, work/employment and institutions, crimes against women and women’s equality and empowerment. She has been pursuing intensive sub-state level analysis for India to examine gender inequalities and discrimination against women and has also worked on the South Asian region. She has published several articles on these subjects in various journals and books.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on extreme forms of violence against women in India and in south-eastern Turkey. She is the founding editor of the Women’s Health & Urban Life Journal and the recipient of the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award for 2004. Currently, she is serving as the Special Advisor to the Principal on Equity Issues at University of Toronto at Scarborough.

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.