1. Jane Allyn Piliavin is Conway-Bascom Professor Emerita and former Chair of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is coauthor, with J. Dovidio, L. Penner, and D. Schroeder, of The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior (2006) and, with P. Callero, of Giving Blood: The Development of an Altruistic Identity (1991). She studied emergency intervention, blood donation, and volunteering before turning to the health effects of community participation.
2. Erica Siegl is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is a social psychologist with research interests in self and identity, social factors impacting health, environmental sociology, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.