Romance on the Road
Each of these eminent authorities read a chapter of
Romance on the Road prior to publication and provided invaluable suggestions and expertise.
- Southern Europe
- Dr. Eugenia Wickens, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in England, author of several journal articles on female hedonists in Greece
- Dr. Erik Cohen, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, perhaps the world's most eminent researcher on the sociology of tourism
- What's Going On
- Dr. Michael Bloor, Cardiff University in Wales, an expert on HIV-related risk behavior, who has conducted the only random survey of young sex travelers
- Caribbean
- Suzanne Lafont, co-author of the landmark study "For Love and Money: Romance Tourism in Jamaica"
- Veteran Caribbean travel writer Marianne Ilaw
- Reasons
- Identity loss: Dr. Laura Juliano, American University
- Identity loss and the search for healing and love: Dr. Bloor's Cardiff University colleague Dr. Michelle Thomas
- Connoisseurship and fantasy fulfillment: Baltimore hairdresser Maya
- Man shortages and a revolution in mate selection: Dr. Scott J. South, the State University of New York-Albany, premier sociologist on family and marriage issues
- Involuntary celibacy: Dr. Denise A. Donnelly, Georgia State University
- Mate selection: Famed anthropologist of human sexuality Dr. Donald Symons of the University of California-Santa Barbara
- The dating war: Therapist Mary Ann Constantinides
- Africa
- Catharine Cooper, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, and Carr and Elizabeth Kizzier, former residents of Kenya, now respectively a Baltimore area teacher and a development officer with the Johns Hopkins international maternal health program
- Experiences
- University of Michigan statistician Anamaria Kazanis (immigration data)
- Dr. Ron de Graaf, senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction (types of sex travelers, and their HIV and mental health risks)
- Mary Ann Constantinides (mental health aspects)
- Asia
- Dr. Petri Hottola of the Finnish University Network for Tourism Studies and the University of Joensuu (India), author of a book touching on backpacker behavior in South Asia
- History
- Dr. Maria Frawley of the University of Delaware, author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in the Victorian Era
- Jane Robinson, author of Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers and Wayward Women (Victorian female travelers)
- Independent scholar Christopher Buyers (Indian maharajas), who maintains a comprehensive Web site, The Royal Ark: Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas
- Latin America
- Elizabeth K. Hilton, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras now at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore, Md..
- Middle East
- Athena Kellner, a former English teacher in Syria.
- Oceania
- Hawaii-based Shereé Lipton, veteran traveler in the remote South Pacific and author of Fiji I Love You, Full Speed.
- Portrayals
- Dr. Susan Blake of Lafayette College in Pennsylvania
- Dr. Jessica Rabin of Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland
- Sex, Power, Ethics and the Future
- Mary Ann Constantinides
- Dr. Chris Ryan of the the University of Waikato in New Zealand, editor of Tourism Management and widely published on sex tourism and other aspects of travel
Each of these eminent authorities read a chapter of
An Amateur's Guide to the Planet prior to publication and provided invaluable suggestions and expertise.
- Madagascar
- Prof. Alison Jolly, Princeton University
- China
- Jay Mathews, former Beijing bureau chief, The Washington Post
- Borneo
- Prof. Jerome Rousseau, McGill University
- Prof. Allen R. Maxwell, University of Alabama
- Kenya & Tanzania
- Prof. Neil Henry, University of California, Berkeley
- Japan
- Fumiko Mori Halloran, Japan Update
- Richard Halloran, former Tokyo bureau chief, The New York Times
- Polynesia
- Prof. Yosihiko Sinoto, Bishop Museum, Honolulu
- Prof. Lynne Withey, University of California, Berkeley
- Greece
- Yoriko Kishimoto, author of The Third Century: America's Resurgence in the Asian Era
- The Yucatan
- Prof. Flora S. Clancy University of New Mexico.
- Java and Bali
- Lecturer Tim Behrend, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Prof. Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
- Burma
- Maureen Aung-Thwin, Burma Project director
- Patrick F. Fagan, The Heritage Foundation
- Brazil
- Prof. George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh
- Diana Jean Schemo, The New York Times Rio bureau chief
- Dr. Winston C. Murray, Morgan State University
- J. Walter Davila Jr., Gustavus Adolphus College