Conference Planning Committee

Max Shulman is an associate professor in the Visual and Performing Arts Department. His research examines the representational histories of drug use and deviance.He is the author of The American Pipe Dream: Performing Drug Addiction, 1890-1940 from Iowa University Press. He is the co-editor of Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Nationalism, and Urban Life also with Iowa. At UCCS he is the Director of the Heller Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Co-Director of the veteran-centered project “To the Battlefield and Back Again.” (More at https://vapa.uccs.edu/index/theatre/faculty/shulman)

Kate Quintana is an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Service at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. Her research focuses on international and comparative criminal justice as well as drug use and drug policy.  Dr. Quintana has published on these areas in both domestic and international outlets with recent articles appearing in Deviant Behavior, Journal of Drug Issues, and the Polish Journal of Criminology.https://cps.uccs.edu/faculty-staff/criminal-justice/quintana

Colin Mahoney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He is a core faculty member within the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program with Major Area of Study in Trauma. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Idaho State University, and completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at the National Center for PTSD within the VA Boston. His program of research focuses on co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorders among women that have experienced interpersonal violence. Dr. Mahoney has published articles in peer-reviewed journals that focus on substance use, including the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, and Addictive Behaviors. https://psychology.uccs.edu/colin-mahoney