Professor Emeritus Frederick Irving Kersten received his Ph.D. in 1964 from the Graduate Faculty for Political and Social Science, The New School for Social Research, New York City and held professorships of philosophy at the University of Montana (1962–1969) and the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay (1969–1988); he went on to be the Frankenthal Professor of Philosophy since 1988 at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay where he was awarded the title “emeritus” in 1995.

Fred Kersten was one of the founding directors of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and a member of the board of trustees of the National Research Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychology. He was an active member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences.

His published works include translations and edited volumes of Aaron Gurwitsch, Alfred Schutz, Edmund Husserl, and Dorion Cairns, as well as papers and other studies in various fields of philosophy and phenomenology. Among his published books are Phenomenological Method: Theory and Practice (1989, second edition to be published under the original title Space, Time, and the Other) and Galileo and the Invention of Opera: A Study in the Phenomenology of Consciousness, 2001.

In 1999 Fred Kersten held the Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture “A Stroll with Alfred Schutz” at the annual meeting of SPHS at the University of Oregon (Human Studies, 2002, 25(1): 33–53).

Human Studies will miss a valuable colleague who served on the Editorial Board since the beginning in 1978 and as Honorary Board Member for more than a decade.

The Editors