Karla Maria Rothstein
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Columbia
Her areas of research span the intimate spaces of urban domestic life, death and memory, to intersections of social justice and the built environment.
Lúcia Salles
Superintendent of São Paulo municipality’s Funerary Service.
Marius Rotar
Researcher at the “1 Decembrie 1918” University, Alba Iulia, Romania.
President of the Romanian Cremation Association and author of books like “History of Modern Cremation in Romania”.
Walima T. Kalusa
Professor at Zambia University
Conducts research on missionary doctors and their position in Colonial Zambia. Author of books like “Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History”.
Fernanda Cristina Marquetti
Professor at the Occupational Therapy Course at the Federal University of São Paulo.
Her researches cover the interface between Anthropology and Mental Health. She is part of the “Suicide Routes” Research Group.
Elaine Gomes dos Reis Alves
Post-Doctoral candidate at the Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo.
Visiting Professor at the Death Studies Laboratory; Member of the Research Centre for Study and Research in Emergency and Disasters at the University of São Paulo.
Candi Cann
Professor at the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, Bailor University, United States.
Her research focuses on death and dying, and the impact of remembering (and forgetting) in shaping how lives are recalled, remembered and celebrated.
Alexis Lorenzo Ruiz
Psychology Professor at the University of Havana, Cuba.
President of the Cuban Society of Psychology and of the Cuban Section of Psychology in Emergency and Disasters.
