Susan B Martinez Susan B. Martinez is an independent scholar, journalist, and activist who received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University in the 1970s. Raised by agnostic/intellectual parents in Brooklyn, New York, she found her way to Spiitualism in the early 1980s and has since researched and wrote on psychic phenomena, specializing in modern Spiritualism in the Victorian era. Currently Book Review Editor at the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, she lives in the north Georgia mountains. Read More Read Less