Dan Liechty is Associate Professor of Social Work and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Illinois State University. He is the author/editor of a number of books pertaining to the study of Ernest Becker's ideas, including Transference and Transcendence, Reflecting on Faith in a Post-Christian Time, Death and Denial, and The Ernest Becker Reader. Liechty also serves as Vice-President of The Ernest Becker Foundation and as Webmaster of the EBF Internet discussion group (listserv).