Lester Embree (Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1972) is William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar at Florida Atlantic University. He studied with Dorion Cairns and Aron Gurwitsch, has published extensively in and on constitutive phenomenology, including Reflective Analysis (Zeta Books, 2006) and most recently Environment and Technology Justification (Zeta Books, 2008). He is currently preparing Practical life and Cultural Science: Encounters with Schutz. He served as President of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. for 20 years and is a founder of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations and the Newsletter of Phenomenology.

Hisashi Nasu (Ph. D. Waseda University, 1998) is Professor of Sociology at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the Director of the Alfred Schutz Archive at Waseda University. He has published and edited a number of books and articles concerning phenomenological sociology, sociology of knowledge, and grass root movements including Explortions of the Life World: Continuing Dialogue with Alfred Schutz (2005, co-edited with M. Endress, G. Psathas). He is also a co-translator into Japanese of Alfred Schutz’s Collected Papers vol. 1-3 and Reflections on the Problem of Relevance. His research interests include phenomenological sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociological theory, history of sociology, and grass root movements.

George Psathas (B.A. ‘50 and Ph.D. ’56 Yale University; M.A. ‘51 University of Michigan) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Boston University (since 1997) and Professor (since 1968) where he has served as Chairman and Associate Chairman of the Department. He also has taught at Indiana University, the University of Colorado, and Washington University, St. Louis, and held visiting appointments at the University of London, the Panteios School in Athens, the International University of Japan, Doshisha University, Kyoto, and the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. His recent works include Conversation Analysis: The Study of Talk in Interaction, (1995), Situated Order (1995) co-edited with Paul ten Have, Interaction Competence (1990), an edited collection of papers on interaction analysis, the co-edited books Alfred Schutz Collected Papers Vol. IV, 1996, Explorations of the Life-World: Continuing Dialogues with Alfred Schutz, 2005 and The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt Wolff’s Existential Turn, 2007. He is the founder and editor-in-chief (since 1978) of the international quarterly journal, Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences. His areas of interest include qualitative research methods, social interaction, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and phenomenology and sociology. He is listed in Who’s Who in The World, 2006; Who’s Who in America, 2005 and Who’s Who in the East, 1997.

Ilja Srubar (Dr. phil., Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt/M, 1974) is Professor for Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His main research interests are the Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, History of Sociology, and Sociology of Eastern Europe. He published and edited a number of books concerning phenomenology and sociology and is also co-editor in chief of the German edition of Schutz’ writings. His last publication on the topic: Phänomenologie und soziologische Theorie, Wiesbaden: SV-Verlag 2007