Ian Stevenson was a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who founded the Division of Perceptual Studies and systematically documented over 3,000 cases of children reporting past-life memories across multiple cultures. His methodology was rigorous within the constraints of the field, producing peer-reviewed publications that remain the foundation of academic reincarnation research.
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1966), Reincarnation and Biology (1997)