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| THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY CARLOS S. ALVARADO 
Since July 2000, Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado has served as the Chairman of Domestic and International Programs for the Parapsychology Foundation, the General Series Editor of the Foundation’s Scholarly Monograph Series and the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Parapsychology. Dr. Alvarado is instrumental in the planning of the Foundation’s conventions, forums, courses and lectures. In addition, he maintains communication with international colleagues and serves as an information officer for library patrons and the press. He also coordinates the Parapsychology Foundation LYCEUM program. His current areas of research include the out-of-body experience (OBE) and other such psychic experiences as aura vision and apparitions. For many years, Dr. Alvarado has conducted historical research and survey studies in the United States, Scotland and Puerto Rico. He received his BA in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, an MSc in Parapsychology from John F. Kennedy University in California, an MA in History from Duke University, and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. His research has been funded by the Parapsychology Foundation (New York City), the Society for Psychical Research (London, England), the Perrott-Warrick Fund (Cambridge, England) and the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (Freiburg, Germany). Dr. Alvarado was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is well-known among scientific parapsychologists in the United States, Europe and Latin America for his numerous articles in English and Spanish, published in specialized journals including the Journal of Psychology, Dissociation, Journal of Parapsychology, and the European Journal of Parapsychology, among others. His published work has focused on historical studies of parapsychology and on the psychological variables related to the experience of psychic phenomena. For more than a decade he has played an active role in the Parapsychological Association, the international association of scientific and academic parapsychologists. He has served several terms on the PA Board of Directors and as President in 1995, became the first Latin American to hold that position. Recently he was elected to that post again in 2002-2003. He currently also holds an adjunct appointment as an Assistant Professor of Research in Psychiatric Medicine at the Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where, with Dr. Zingrone, he manages the PF’s editorial office. *********
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