Notes on Contributors

Kim M. Anderson

PhD lcsw is a Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida, usa. As highlighted in her book, Enhancing Resilience in Survivors Family Violence (Anderson, 2010), her scholarship bridges gaps between theory and practice by offering conceptual frameworks that captures the interplay of trauma and resilience for survivors of family violence and mental health practitioners.

Lyn Barnes

is a senior lecturer in journalism at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her PhD thesis focused on trauma journalism and journalists who deal with trauma day-to-day.

Catherine Ann Collins

is a Professor of Rhetoric at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon usa. She teaches and does research in trauma and narrative theory, visual and commemorative rhetoric, and the rhetoric of war.

Fran S. Danis

PhD is Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Texas – Arlington, usa. Her research includes self-efficacy of practitioners, resiliency of abuse survivors and their adult daughters, and developing coordinated community responses to crime victims. Currently, she is a researcher and evaluator for gender justice.

Stefanie Marie Margarete Dinkelbach

PhD is an independent artist, film-maker and scholar based in Cork, Ireland. She recently completed a practice-based doctorate in film which involved producing Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy), an audio-visual reflection on collective memory that pays tribute to the victims of the Holocaust.

Lyda Eleftheriou

is a Lecturer in English and the Induction Programme Leader at UNICAF University. Her research interests lie in the realms of postcolonial literature, psychoanalytic theory and memory studies. She is currently pursuing her PhD at University of Cyprus, focusing on South Asian Partition Fiction in English.

Kirsten Havig

PhD, msw is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at The University of Wyoming, usa. Her research focuses on violence against women; the commercial sexual exploitation of children; trauma, resilience, and posttraumatic growth; and social justice pedagogy in social work education. Prior to working in higher education she was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practiced with child welfare- and justice-involved youth, and survivors of sexual trauma.

Anka D. Mason

is an independent human rights legal scholar and activist. Her work focuses on issues of body, gender, violence, and rights advocacy within conflict and post-conflict communities.

Elspeth McInnes

BA Hons 1 PhD is a sociologist and Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Her teaching and research is focused on educator knowledge of family violence and abuse, parental separation and divorce and the social policies addressing these issues.

Joan Simalchik

teaches in the Historical Studies Department, University of Toronto Mississauga, where she is the Program Coordinator for Women and Gender Studies. Joan served as the founding executive director of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture.

Stephanie Y. Tam

is an independent writer, researcher and producer. She completed an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and an MSt in World Literatures in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford as a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar. Her research interests include trauma theory, narrative therapy, postcolonial and migration studies and, the role of fantasy in memory reconstruction, which she also explores in her own creative work.

Rana Tayara

a native of Lebanon, has witnessed the effects of war on the Lebanese children and adolescents. After graduating with a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of York UK, she has published several articles on the well-being of adults and adolescents in post conflict environments.