text: who is ian stevenson and what does he have to do with rebirth? i want to know about rebirth and reincarnation and if they are true with some real case histories. since 1967 ian stevenson has been working at the division of personality studies (dops) at the university of virginia. he is best known for collecting and meticulously researching cases of children who seem to recall past lives (spontaneously, that is, without the need for hypnosis), thereby providing some of the best available evidence suggestive of reincarnation.