J. Anna Looney, Ph.D., works as a qualitative researcher, analyst and facilitator in the Family Medicine Department of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/UMDNJ. A sociologist, Looney earned her doctorate from Rutgers University in 2005. Her dissertation focused on the impact of cult membership over the life course.  Looney has collected primary data for a longitudinal panel study of individuals who were living in religious and secular communes. In addition to her scholarly interests in New Religious Movements, Social Psychology and the Life Course, she has taught undergraduate courses in Sociology. ([email protected])