Roberta Culbertson, Ph.D. wrote on refugee experiences and mass violence for over twenty years. She is the author of Siege: Crisis Leadership and the Survival of U.S. Embassy Kuwait (with Nathaniel Howell), and Dangerous Worlds: A Spiritual Guide to PTSD. Through the Center on Violence and Community at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, she edited several publications for survivors of violence: Surviving War: Poetry, Essays and Photographs; Sacred Bearings; and Tough Times Companion. She was trained as a chaplain and has worked with people aging into dying for over ten years.
