 | Robert T. Francoeur, Ph.D.,
A.C.S. - Chair |
 | Peter B. Anderson, Ph.D. |
 | Suzie Benack, Ph.D. |
 | Mim Chapman, Ph.D. |
 | Joseph R. DiLorenzo, Ph.D. |
 | Todd L. Duncan, Ph.D. |
 | Karen E.
Engebretsen, Psy.D. |
 | Barbara Foster, M.L.S. |
 | David S. Hall, Ph.D. |
 | Roseann Hannon, Ph.D. |
 | Kenneth R. Haslam, M.D. |
 | Loraine Hutchins, Ph.D. |
 | Susan Kaye, Ph.D., D.H.S. |
 | Linda Marks, M.S.M. |
 | Carol Morotti-Meeker, M.S.,
M.L.S.P. |
 | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli,
Ph.D. |
 | Rustum Roy, Ph.D. |
 | George W. Sherouse, Ph.D. |
 | Thomas Swan, Ph.D. |
 | Harlan White, M.A., M.D.,
M.P.H. |
 | Valerie White, Esq. |

Robert T. Francoeur, Ph.D., A.C.S.
Chair, Advisory Council
Trained in embryology,
evolution, theology, and the humanities, Dr. Francoeur's main work has
been to synthesize and integrate the findings of primary sexological
researchers. He is the author of 22 books, contributor to 78
textbooks, handbooks, and encyclopedias, and the author of 58 technical
papers on various aspects of sexuality. His books include The
Scent of Eros: Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality (1995), Becoming
a Sexual Person (1982, 1984, 1991), Hot and Cool Sex: Cultures in
Conflict (1974), The Future of Sexual Relations (1974), two
college textbooks, Utopian Motherhood: New Trends in Human Reproduction
(1970, 1974, 1977) and Eve's New Rib: 20 Faces of Sex, Marriage, and
Family (1992). He is editor-in-chief of The Complete Dictionary of
Sexology. A fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of
Sexuality and past president of the Society's Eastern Region, he is also a
charter member of the American College of Sexology. Dr. Francoeur
received the Society's Public Service Award in 1999. He is currently
professor emeritus of biological and allied health sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Madison, New Jersey, adjunct professor in the doctoral Program
in Human Sexuality at New York University, and professor in the New York
University "Sexuality in Two Cultures" program in Copenhagen.
Peter B. Anderson, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Peter
B. Anderson, Ph.D. is the Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, College
of Social Behavioral and Health Sciences at Walden University in Spring,
Texas. His Ph.D. from New York University was in Human Sexuality and he
has studied and taught sexuality in Kenya, Sweden, and Denmark.
He was the first conscientious objector to do an alternative
service with Planned Parenthood and was a pro-choice counselor before Roe
v. Wade.
He has continued to speak out for non-violence, women’s rights,
alternative lifestyles, and other social issues throughout his life.
He has published two edited books, ten book chapters, over 20
articles in professional peer-reviewed journals, and has more than 30
other publications, many of them about educational theory/philosophy.
He has also made approximately 50 presentations at professional
meetings, most of them at the national level and received more than a
dozen grants, totaling over a million dollars, as Principal Investigator
or Co-Principal Investigator.
Suzie
Benack, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Dr. Benack is
a Professor of Psychology at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
She received her doctoral degree in developmental psychology from
Harvard in 1981 and taught at Swarthmore College before going to Union.
Her areas of expertise are development in adolescence and early
adulthood, moral and ego development, gender, and object
relations/intimate relationships.
Mim Chapman, Ph.D. Board of Directors/Advisory Council
Dr. Chapman is
an educator, a learner, and a change agent. Her work experience
includes commercial fishing, civil rights activism, marine salvage,
bartending, political lobbying and fundraising, and
education. She has taught elementary to graduate school levels,
been an administrator at a community college, a K-12 school and a
middle school. During the time she was Principal of Clark Middle
School in Anchorage, Alaska, Clark was named one of four mid-level
schools in the nation with the most innovating, successful programs to
address diversity. Mim is a certified Myers-Briggs trainer and
has led workshops in various aspects of learning styles, multiple
intelligences, collaboration, diversity, and the change process for
conferences, schools and businesses.
Joseph
R. DiLorenzo, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Dr.
DiLorenzo is a practicing clinical psychologist in New York
City. Dr. DiLorenzo's private practice focuses
on sexualities, alternative lifestyles, sexual orientation and lifestyles
issues. He also practices as a School
Psychologist, NYC Board of Education, with emphasis on
preventive-intervention; clinical assessment and evaluation; crisis
intervention with extensive experience in suicidality; child sexual and
physical abuse; domestic violence, and early childhood psychosis.
Dr. DiLorenzo has taught at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Pace
University, and Rutgers University, and he has published several papers
and presented at various scientific conferences and symposia. His
doctoral degree in Cognitive Psychology is from Rutgers University.
Todd L. Duncan, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Trained in astrophysics (Ph.D. University of Chicago, M.Phil. Cambridge University, B.S. University of Illinois), Dr. Duncan’s work focuses on integrating insights from modern science into the everyday perspective from which we see ourselves as part of the overall framework of the universe. After serving for two years on the faculty of the Center for Science Education at Portland State University, Dr. Duncan founded the Science Integration Institute, a nonprofit organization offering lectures and educational material to help people incorporate insights from science into their personal worldviews. He has taught interdisciplinary science courses ranging from elementary school to graduate level, and is author of
An Ordinary World: The Role of Science in Your Search for Personal
Meaning. He is currently president of the Science Integration Institute and adjunct assistant professor of science education at Portland State University.
Dr. Duncan’s work links to the ITCR through a recognition that intolerance often stems from a narrowness of perspective, so a greater awareness of the variety and trial-and-error nature of processes in the universe tends to make people less rigid in their beliefs and more willing to consider alternative viewpoints. He is also interested in understanding what rules or guiding principles for personal relationships are most supportive of the effort to develop
the deep connections to the rest of the universe that best help us understand and carry out our role in it.
Karen E.
Engebretsen, Psy.D.
Advisory Council
Karen E. Engebretsen, Psy.D. PA.,
DABPS, DNBAE, DAPA, FACAPP, FAAIM, CDVC-IV, DAC, CHT, CST is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in addictions and trauma-related disorders, as well as
sexuality and relationship concerns. She is an active member of the American Counseling Association, the American Psychological Association, Division
39 of the APA, the American Psychotherapy Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the
Mental Health Association of Broward County, the National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, the
National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization, and the South Florida Society for Trauma-based Disorders. She
is also a member of the Southeast Florida Association of Psychoanalytic Psychology. In addition to working with
SEFAPP's education committee and serving as co-chair for the fund-raising committee, she has served two
consecutive terms as Secretary and as Treasurer for the organization.
Dr. Engebretsen is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University and has completed a post doctorate in
Psychoanalytic Psychology from NSU. She is a Fellow of the American College of Advanced Practice Psychologists
(FACAPP), and a Fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine (FAAIM). She has also been awarded a
Diplomate from the American Psychotherapy Association (DAPA), a Diplomate from the American Board
of Psychological Specialties/American College of Forensic Examiners with a specialty in
Trauma/PTSD (DABPS), a Diplomate from the National Board of Addiction Examiners/National Association of Forensic Counselors
(DNBAE), and a doctoral level specialty certification in Sexual Addiction from the National Board of Addiction Examiners
(DAC). Additionally, she has received specialty certification in Domestic Violence treatment from the Academy of Domestic
Violence Counselors (CDVC-IV) and national board certification in hypnotherapy
(CHT). She is also a
Certified Sex Therapist, and has written and presented extensively on
topics related to sexuality, trauma, addiction, parenting and
relationships.
Barbara Foster, M.L.S.
Advisory Council
Barbara Foster is an Associate Professor in the Library
Department of Hunter College. She is a world traveler and has acted as a
referee for the Royal Geographical Society (London). She is co-author of the
biography The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel (Overlook Press, 1998). Her lectures on David-Neel, the French
explorer of Tibet, at universities, museums and organizations are ongoing on an
international basis. Barbara has
published a wide variety of articles on Women's Studies, as well as poetry in
every English speaking country. She is
co-author of Three In Love: Ménages a Trois from Ancient to Modern Times,
(HarperCollins, 1997; now an Author’s Guild selection at iuniverse.com). Her latest project is a biography of Adah Isaacs
Menken, the original sex goddess.
David S. Hall, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
David Hall has had not one, but two very successful careers, the first as an expert
in aviation safety and engineering, the second as a sexologist. A former Naval Aviator and flight test
engineer, Dr. Hall served on the faculty of the University of Southern California,
Institute of Aerospace Safety and Management, in several other faculty roles in
Arizona and California, and in senior positions in private industry related to
aviation safety, management, and engineering. He continues to consult in the field.
Upon
receiving his Ph.D. from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human
Sexuality in 1995, Dr. Hall joined the IASHS faculty. He also holds an adjunct professorship in the Department of
Psychology of the University of the Pacific. Dr. Hall also is the Senior Editor of the Electronic Journal of Human
Sexuality, the first online academic journal of human sexuality. Dr. Hall also serves on the boards of the
American College of Sexologists and the Society for the Scientific Study of
Sexuality. He is widely published in
both the fields of sexuality and aviation.
Roseann Hannon, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Dr.
Hannon is a Professor of Psychology in the Psychology Department at the
University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She also maintains a private
practice in Clinical Neuropsychology.
Her current research interests include assessment and treatment of
prospective memory in adults as a function of aging and brain injury;
factors leading to unwanted and wanted sexual activity in college
students; the relationships between sexuality, spirituality and religion;
and romantic and sexual interactions on the Internet. Dr. Hannon has
published or co-published over two dozen articles, and presented widely in
her fields of research. Her Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology was granted
by the University of South Dakota.
Kenneth
R. Haslam, M.D.
Advisory Council
Dr.
Haslam is a founding Board member of the Institute. He retired from the practice of anesthesiology in 1993, after more
than 30 years of practice in a variety of settings in the United States
and abroad. He was a member
of the faculty at the Duke University Medical Center and at the University
of North Carolina School of Medicine, where he founded the Medical
Instrumentation Department. He
has served as medical consultant to a variety of corporations in aviation
biomedicine, biotechnology and pharmacology. Dr. Haslam, a U.S. Navy veteran, has also held senior hospital
administrative roles including department chair and chief of staff.
He holds a commercial pilot’s license, is a certified scuba
diver, and has served as ship’s physician on expeditions to the Arctic
and Antarctica and on a restored WWII Liberty Ship during its
transatlantic voyage to the 50th Anniversary of D-Day celebrations in
France.
Loraine Hutchins, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Loraine Hutchins, Ph.D. has
been active as an organizer and author in polyamory, LGBT, and other
social justice movements, both nationally and locally, for over three
decades. She co-edited Bi Any Other Name, the book that catalyzed
the bisexual liberation movement and helped put
the "B" in LGBT. She co-founded BiNet USA: The National Bisexual Network, and
Washington DC's AMBi, the Alliance of Multicultural Bisexuals. She
co-starred in Betty Dodson's first video, Selfloving: Portrait of a
Women's Sexuality Seminar and is a member of the Society for the
Scientific Study of Sexuality, the National Writers Union, and the U.S.
Association of Body Psychotherapists. Her work has been printed in
many sexuality textbooks and journals. Her recent doctoral
dissertation, Erotic Rites: A Cultural Analysis of Contemporary U.S.
Sacred Sexuality Traditions and Trends has been self-published, with
close to 100 copies already in circulation. Dr. Hutchins works as a
sexuality educator and sex coach in the Washington, DC metro area,
specializing in large women, older people, people with disabilities, LGBT
populations, and those in the polyamory and BDSM communities.
Susan Kaye, Ph.D., DHS
Advisory Council
Susan Kaye holds both a Ph.D. as a clinical sexologist and
Doctorate of Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human
Sexuality. She is a certified clinical
sexologist and also holds an associate certificate in sex education. She is in private practice in the
Philadelphia area, serves as a teaching associate at Widener University and
LaSalle University, and teaches at Montgomery County Community College. Her practice has included working with a
wide range of client populations, including rape and incest survivors,
convicted sex offenders, and persons in rehabilitation for traumatic head
injuries. Her work has focused on individual, couple, and family well being, and her clinical experience has
included work with the heterosexual, gay, lesbian, transvestite, and
transsexual communities. Susan is a member of the American College of Sexology, American Association of Sex
Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and the Society for the Scientific Study
of Sexuality.
Linda Marks,
MSM
Advisory Council
Linda Marks, MSM, has practiced heart-centered, psychospiritual body-centered
psychotherapy (EKP) for nearly twenty years. She is the founder of the Institute for Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy (EKP) in Newton, MA, where
she developed and conducted a three year, 1000-hour training program in EKP
for eleven years. She was co-founder of the Massachusetts Association for
Body-Oriented Psychotherapists and Counseling Bodyworkers, the first body psychotherapy professional association in the country, and helped write a
code of ethics for the profession, including a groundbreaking section on the
ethics of touch in psychotherapy. She has served on the boards of many community and national organizations, including the Association for
Humanistic Psychology. She is the founder of the Boston Area Sexuality and
Spirituality Network, and part of the leadership team for growing the national Sexuality and Spirituality movement.
She is the author of Living With Vision: Reclaiming the Power of
the Heart (Knowledge Systems, 1989) and is currently working on three books in the
areas of sexuality, spirituality and gender healing. She is a regular contributor to
Spirit of Change magazine and Spirituality and Sexuality journal. She holds degrees from Yale University and the Sloan School of
Management, MIT.
Carol Morotti-Meeker,
M.S., M.L.S.P., A.C.S.W.
Board of Directors/Advisory Council
Ms.
Morotti-Meeker is a therapist and social worker involved in the human
family in all its forms as a mental health professional and researcher.
She has served as a therapist, caseworker, and researcher promoting
positive family functioning and children's safety.
She holds a Master's degree from Iowa State University, and a
Master of Law and Social Policy degree from Bryn Mawr College.
She has completed additional studies at the Health Arts Institute,
the Child Guidance Clinic of Philadelphia, and the Marriage Council of
Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Morotti-Meeker has practiced as a counselor and therapist in
both private and institutional settings, working with adults and children
in families of all compositions.
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at Deakin University,
Melbourne, Australia, Maria writes and researches on ethnicity, gender,
sexuality and HIV/STDs in education and health, particularly in relation
to young people, and to individuals in intimate relationships.
She formerly taught for over a decade in a boys’ Catholic
school, and served as the Gender and Equity Officer for the Catholic Education
Office in South Australia, responsible for writing, consulting and
implementing the Gender and Equity Policy for all South Australian
Catholic schools. Apart
from academic chapters, research monographs and journal articles, her
publications include Someone You
Know (1991, 2001), Girls Talk:
Young Women Speak Their Hearts And Minds (1998) and Tapestry
(1999). Her forthcoming books
are So What’s A Boy? Issues of
Masculinity and Schooling (2001) and Boys’
Stuff: Talking About What Matters (2001). Both are co-authored with Dr. Wayne Martino of Murdoch University,
Western Australia.
Maria is currently researching and compiling Coming
Out of the Too Hard Basket: Successful Stories from Families, Schools and
Communities (working title) (2002) that presents examples of what has
been done and can been done to overcome homophobia within families,
schools and the wider community; and has begun the research into bisexual
students, multi-sexual and multi-partnered (polyamorous) families in the
U.S. and Australia for a forthcoming book, Border
Sexualities, Border Families: Diversity in Schools (working
title) (2003). She is
also writing her next novel for Random House.
Maria spends a lot of time on buses, trains and planes between
Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney in order to be with family and friends who
are far too supportive and patient with her.
Rustum
Roy, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Rustum Roy is among the two or three active leading
materials scientists in the U.S. Author of over 600 papers with major
contributions to science from glass ceramics to sol-gel technology to
diamond films and nanocomposites, he is the senior-most member in the U.S.
National Academy of Engineering specializing in ceramic materials - today
one of the hottest fields in science; he is a foreign member of the
Swedish, Japanese, and Indian National Academies.
As Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of the solid state and director of
the Science, Technology, and Society programs at the Pennsylvania State
University, Dr. Roy has wide-ranging interests in crystal chemistry and
mineral synthesis. His recent
work has focused on radwaste composites, chemical vapor deposition of
diamonds, and diphasic gels.
Dr. Roy is also intensely involved in reforming
religious institutions, locally, nationally, and worldwide. The direction was always towards greater inclusivity.
He helped start what is one of the oldest ecumenical house churches
in the country, and was for 30 years on the board of the pioneering
national ecumenical retreat center, Kirkridge.
Since giving the prestigious Hibbert Lectures in London,
incorporating the insights of science and technology into the world's
religions, he has become a spokesman for a "radical pluralist"
integration among the world's religions and cultures.
In the arena of sexuality and sexual ethics, Dr. Roy
co-authored (with his wife Della) Honest Sex: A Sexual Ethic by and for
Concerned Christians, (1969) as well as numerous papers and contributions to
relevant journals.
George W. Sherouse, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Dr. Sherouse is a Medical Physicist, certified by the
American Board of Radiology to practice Therapeutic Radiological Physics. He is well known in his field as an
innovator in the use of advanced computing for the planning and delivery of
radiation therapy, and as an outspoken commentator on the state of his
profession. In the 1980s and 1990s he
authored a large body of influential research software for the computer-aided
design of radiation therapy, which he chose to distribute for free rather than
commercialize. He holds a B.S. in
Physics and M.S. in Medical Physics from the University of Florida, where he
also did his clinical training. His
Ph.D. is in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He has served on the
faculties of the Schools of Medicine at UNC-CH, Duke University Medical Center
and the Medical University of South Carolina. He is the author of approximately 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers and
half a dozen textbook chapters. Since
1998 he has been in solo private practice as a consulting Medical Physicist.
Since about 1991 Dr. Sherouse has brought his professional
systems analysis skills to bear in the much more personal arena of
non-traditional models for relationship and family. He has been a contributor to the public dialogue in a variety of
fora and has become an increasingly public advocate for the mainstreaming
of inclusive models of loving. He is a
loosely-bound Unitarian Universalist, drawing inspiration for his personal
worldview from Taoism, baseball, the writings of Sufi masters Rumi and Hafiz,
and such modern-day prophets as Brad Blanton, David Schnarch and Lee
Lozowick. He has studied the
traditional jembe drumming of the Mande people of West Africa for about 5 years
and derives a great deal of satisfaction from stretching a wet goatskin tight
over a hollowed-out log until it makes just the right sound.
Thomas
Swan, Ph.D.
Advisory Council
Dr. Swan is an Associate
Professor of Psychology at Siena College in Loudonville, New York.
He received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Boston
University in 1994. Before
going to Siena, he was Director of Counseling Services for the College of
St. Rose. His areas of
expertise are psychoanalysis, object relations and self psychology,
evolutionary psychology, and moral development.
Harlan
White, M.A., M.D., M.P.H.
Advisory Council
Harlan
White is a psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer of a major community mental health center in Seattle. In
addition to his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois, he holds an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.P.H. in
epidemiology from the University of Hawaii School of Public Health. He has extensive experience in the field of community psychiatry, as a
clinician, administrator, and researcher.
He also has extensive experience as a leader and facilitator in the polyamory movement and the prosexual community. He founded a weekly
polyamory discussion group in Honolulu in 1993 which is still meeting, and has presented numerous workshops, some at national Loving More
Conferences. He is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and has a special interest in the field of sacred
sexuality, and in turning science fiction concepts into social realities. His
article "Pagans and the Other Sexism" appeared in Green Egg magazine,
while "The Rocking Chair Parable" was published in Loving More.
He is currently the national Secretary for Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness.
Valerie
White, Esq.
Advisory Council
Ms. White has a
long history of interest in human sexuality, stemming from the openness of
her mother, who studied under Dr. Alfred Kinsey (by special permission –
she was unmarried at the time) and her aunt, who actually worked on
Kinsey’s landmark studies of male and female sexuality. With her mother's permission and full support, Ms. White read
several of Dr. Albert Ellis' works on alternative relationship structures
while still in high school. Her views were profoundly shaped by this upbringing.
After obtaining
an undergraduate degree in zoology, Ms. White taught childbirth education
classes in England for the National Childbirth Trust, and for a short time
served as a physician's assistant for Planned Parenthood. After following the time-honored tradition of “reading for the
law,” Ms. White was admitted to the bar and practiced criminal and
family law for fourteen years in Vermont. Presently she is working on a book.
Ms. White’s
volunteer experience includes serving three terms as board president of
the Vermont ACLU affiliate, executive council co-chair of the Freedom from
Religion Foundation and their Freethinker of the Year for 1988. She has served as vice-president of the American Humanist
Association and president of the Humanist Society of Friends. She is an ordained Humanist minister. In addition to her role with the Institute, she currently serves as
a board member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (Unitarian
Universalist) and Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness, and is the
President of the Unitarian
Universalists for Polyamory Awareness.

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