Hilary Agro is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia. Her research is on recreational drug use in electronic music settings in Toronto, Ontario, exploring the way in which psychoactive substances are used in specific physical and cultural environments to produce socially mediated alternate states of consciousness. She is interested in harm reduction in conjunction with benefit enhancement, knowledge production, prohibition, governance, policy, gender, and political economy. Hilary is ADTSG’s Social Media Coordinator and a Contributing Editor to the journal Cultural Anthropology. Email: hagro@uwo.ca  Twitter: @hilaryagro

Peter Benson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches courses on tobacco, global health, capitalism, and social theory.  He is the author of Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry (2012, Princeton UP) and coauthor of Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala (2006, Stanford UP). He is also a past chair of the Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Study Group. Email: pbenson@artsci.wustl.edu

Philippe Bourgois is the Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine. He has published a number of award-winning books and edited volumes including In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Cambridge, 1995) as well as Righteous Dopefiend (co-authored with Jeff Schonberg, University of California, 2009), Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (Johns Hopkins, 1989) and Violence in War and Peace (Co-edited with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Blackwell 2004).

Currently, Philippe is the PI on a 14-year continuously renewed NIH R01 research grant, developing a risk-environment theory for HIV prevention and treatment useful for the US inner city. He also recently completed five years of NIH-funded HIV-prevention fieldwork (2007-2012) in the Puerto Rican inner city of Philadelphia. In 2013, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative grant to work on his new book on North Philadelphia tentatively entitled, Cornered, about daily life in an impoverished de-industrialized US inner city neighborhood, overwhelmed by open-air heroin and cocaine markets. Email: bourgois@gmail.com

Santiago Ivan Guerra completed a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with a thematic concentration in the Mexican American Borderlands Program and a Doctoral Portfolio in Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also been trained in the field of drug-related research by leading researchers from the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse. Santiago’s research background and teaching experience are in the fields of Social/Cultural Anthropology, Mexican American/Latino Studies and Southwest/Borderlands Studies. His research centers on the social construction of illegality, criminality and policing along the South Texas-Mexico Border. His dissertation, From Vaqueros to Mafiosos: A Community History of Drug Trafficking in Rural South Texas is an ethnographic study of the impact of the drug trade on a rural South Texas border community and received the Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2012 from the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies-Tejas FOCO.  To date his work has been supported by various funding sources, including the National Science Foundation, College of Liberal Arts and  the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies at Colorado College. Email: santiago.guerra@coloradocollege.edu

Shana Harris is a cultural and medical anthropologist who specializes in drug use and abuse and health politics and practice in Latin America and the United States.  She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco in 2012.  She was a National Institutes of Health funded-Postdoctoral Fellow in the Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research Program at the National Development and Research Institutes in New York City from 2013 to 2015.  Her dissertation and postdoctoral research ethnographically examined drug use and the politics of intervention related to harm reduction in Argentina.  Her new project examines medical travel and the use of a psychedelic called ibogaine for drug treatment in Mexico.  She currently serves as chair of ADTSG.  Email: shana.harris@ucf.edu

Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist, who has had 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, youth cultures and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research (CRF) at the University of Aarhus and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis. Dr. Hunt is Principal Investigator on a National Institutes on Health project on Asian-American men who have sex with men (MSM). This project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse is a continuation project on the culture of drug use in the dance scene begun in 2002. This initial project also encompassed three comparative qualitative research projects in Hong Kong and Rotterdam. A book based on this research “Youth Drugs and Nightlife” was published in November 2009 by Routledge.

In addition to these projects on clubs, drugs and the Nighttime Economy, Dr. Hunt and his team continue their work on youth gangs in the San Francisco Bay Area and are currently analyzing and writing up their research on gender and drug sales, a project also funded by the National Institute onDrug Abuse.

Dr. Hunt has been involved in two large scale comparative international projects. The first project focused on the study of alcohol treatment systems in sixteen countries and led to the publication of the book: “Cure, Care or Control: Alcoholism Treatment in Sixteen Countries” (SUNY 1992). A companion volume: “Drugs, Demons and Delinquents: Drug Treatment Systems in an International Perspective” (Sage 1998) examined the drug treatment systems in twenty different countries. Most recently, Dr. Hunt, along with Dr. Milhet from the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) in Paris and Dr. Bergeron from Sciences Po also in Paris, edited the book “Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy” (Ashgate 2011). Email: huntgisa@ix.netcom.com

Juliet’s interests in alcohol, tobacco and drug studies include the social constructions of drugs and drug use; critique of methods; and ethnographic approaches to alcohol, tobacco and drug policies.  She has since served as Principal or Co-Investigator on multiple research projects focusing on use and misuse of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs with NIH and California tobacco research (TRDRP) funding. These projects have utilized mixed methods designs and community-partnered approaches including Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), and community-based preventive interventions.  Juliet received an MA in Asian Studies and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology based on research in nationalism and modernity in Indonesia, and post-doctoral training in Alcohol Studies as an NIAAA Post-Doctoral Fellow at PRC. Many of her articles are available for free via PubMed Email: jlee@prev.org

David Shane Lowry is an anthropologist trained at MIT (during and directly after the mapping of DNA) and UNC-Chapel Hill. One question guides most of his anthropological inquiries: “Why do humans heal?” David’s inquiries into drug use began during ten years of work in America’s pharmacies. He also gathered ethnographic knowledge of drug use during three years of fieldwork in Native American churches and soup kitchens in North Carolina. David is finishing up a book on the politics of drug preparation in America (currently under contract). The next phase of his research/writing will focus on the “body” within medical education. On the side, David is writing a book about America after Michael Jeffrey Jordan (the basketball player and global icon). Email: david.lowry@rosalindfranklin.edu  Twitter and Instagram: @DavidShaneLowry

Stacey McKenna is a Research Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Denver in the Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences. She is currently a co-investigator on an NIH funded study of methamphetamine users’ drug acquisition and survival strategies in Northern Colorado. Using ethnography, discourse analysis, and mixed-methods collaborations, Stacey is interested in the study of drug use, homelessness, health, and survival in small urban and rural communities.  Email: Stacey.Mckenna@ucdenver.edu

Mark Nichter is Regents Professor and coordinator of the Graduate Medical Anthropology Training Program at the University of Arizona. His long term  research interests include the study of pharmaceutical  trials , marketing , prescription, consumption and adherence; drug use trends,  pharmaceutical selves,   ,  and factors favoring  tobacco uptake, dependency, and cessation.  Mark has carried out long term research in both South and Southeast Asia as well as the United states.  He has served on  Institute of Medicine  committees on Tobacco and Youth in the USA, and the Use and Popularity of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, as well as the Robert Wood JohnsonTobacco Etiology Research Network. He currently serves on the Advisory Board, of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars  Program,  and is PI of  NIH funded Project Quit Tobacco International Email: NichterMark@Gmail.com

Kristen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. For many years, she worked as a researcher with the Alaska Office of the Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation (PIRE).  She has managed three National Institutes of Health-funded studies in Alaska focused on substance misuse and risky behavior prevention and also served as a qualitative co-investigator in this research. Her primary interest is engaging in a critical dialogue with the expanding public health discourse on health disparities and social determinants of health in relation to substance misuse. Much of her work has sought to develop and test community-based approaches to the prevention of substance misuse, including inhalants and over-the-counter and prescription drugs, in rural Alaska. Recently, she has been examining the history, effectiveness, and unintended consequences of community local options restrictions on alcohol in Alaska. Raised in rural Arizona, she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Arizona State University. Email: kaogilvie@uaa.alaska.edu

Dr Quintero is a broadly trained cultural anthropologist with expertise in the areas of applied anthropology, medical anthropology and Southwest ethnography. He has an active research agenda focusing on social, cultural and political economic aspects of drug use. The majority of his research has consisted of applied ethnographic studies of drug use, predominately with Hispanic and Native American populations in the Southwest as well as young adult populations in Western cultural settings in the United States. Email: gilbert.quintero@montana.edu

Bob began working for the Institute for Human Development at Northern Arizona University in 1989 as a research specialist . From ca. 1980-2003 He worked as research specialist for the American Indian Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (AIRRTC), conducting research on the vocational rehabilitation of American Indians with Alcohol Dependance or Abuse, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, or Fetal Alcohol Effects, as well as other matters. In connection with these projects, Bob conducted field trips to Dallas and Houston in Texas, Minneapolis, MN, and Indian Reservations in northern California, Washington State, Idaho, and Montana. He received training in Motivational Interviewing and other methods from the University of Arizona, the Arizona Practice Improvement Collaborative (Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center; the name has changed several times), for which he also served on the Advisory Board. Bob became interested in substance abuse issues, including the cultural factors surrounding it, because these were major factors in vocational rehabilitation, and attention on these issues was wanted and needed. The cultural factors were of particular interest to him because of his background in Anthropology. Email: Robert.Schacht@nau.edu