The Institute for 21st Century Relationships
Our Advisory Council

(as of 9/3/07)

Please note: membership on the Institute's Advisory Council only signifies the individual's support for the principles embodied in the Mission of the Institute, and under no circumstances may or should be construed as an endorsement of, or signify an individual's personal agreement with, any particular lifestyle choice or practice. Any affiliations noted are strictly for the purposes of identification, and do not imply support for, or endorsement of, the Institute, its programs or policies by any organization or entity so noted. Click here to see the responsibilities of our Advisory Council.

 
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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