The International Board of Directors is made up of every office, program, project director and senior editor of ICAS as well as the officers of ICAS. The Board meets 4 times a years via the internet on the first Saturday in March – June – September – December. The summary, minutes, and critical examination of the “State of Higher Education” at each Board Meeting is published in the ICAS Policy Report that is published quarterly. Executive Officers are elected for two years with the option of being re-elected, they are members of the Board of Directors and hold more than one position in ICAS. The Board of Directors are appointed by the Executive Officers and have no set term limit.
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Board of Directors
Dr. Brian Lowe
President
Manages: .Board-Meetings and Decision-making process
Dr. Susan Thomas
Vice-President of Internal Affairs
Manages: (1) JCAS, (2) Programs for CAS, (3) CAS Publications, (4) CAS Book Series, (5) Association for CAS, and (6) Conferences for CAS
Dr. Carolyn Drew
Vice-President of International Affairs
Manages: (1) ICAS S. America, (2) ICAS N. America, (3) ICAS Europe, (4) ICAS Africa, (5) ICAS Asia, and (6) ICAS Oceania
Sarat Colling
Secretary
Manages: ICAS Policy Report and Minutes from Board Meetings
Anthony J. Nocella, II
Treasurer
Manages: Memberships, Donations, and Budget
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ICAS Senior Officers
Sarat Colling
CAS Publications, Director
Sarat Colling grew up on Hornby Island, a small island off the west coast of BC, where the protected natural surroundings inspired her passion to advocate for animal rights and eco-sustainability. She is currently completing a bachelor’s degree in English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse at Brock University in Ontario, where she volunteers with the Brock Animal Rights Club and serves on the Board of Directors for OPIRG-Brock. She is the newsletter editor for the Vancouver Island Vegetarian Association and the founder of Political Media Review, a reviewing clearinghouse for social justice media. Along with critical animal studies, her concerns include disability rights, transnational feminism, and independent media.
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Anthony J. Nocella, II
Association for CAS, Director
Anthony J. Nocella, II teaches classes in Sociology and Criminology at Le Moyne College and SUNY Cortland. He has provided conflict transformation workshops and classes to NGOs, ROTC, U.S. military, law enforcement and public safety officials and in prisons, juvenile halls, and middle schools and high schools. He has been involved in numerous political campaigns, organizations, and international demonstrations fostering direct democracy and is a co-founder of more than fifteen active political organizations and four scholarly journals. He has published more than twenty-five scholarly articles and is working on his tenth book, co-edited with Dr. Richard Kahn, Greening the Academy: Environmental Studies in the Liberal Arts (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming). His other books include A Peacemaker’s Guide for Building Peace with a Revolutionary Group (PARC, 2004), co-editor with Dr. Steve Best, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (Lantern Books, 2004); and, with Steve Best, Igniting a Revolution Voices in Defense of the Earth (AK Press, 2006). His site is www.anthonynocella.org.
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Stephanie Jenkins
ICAS International Conference, Director
Stephanie Jenkins is a dual-PhD candidate in Philosophy and Women’s Studies. Her research and teaching interests include 20th century French philosophy, feminist philosophy, disability studies, critical animal studies, and bioethics. She received her Master’s degree in Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007. Her Master’s thesis, “The Bodying of the Body: Levinas’ Theory of Embodiment” outlines and analyzes the role of embodiment in Levinas’ early work through Totality and Infinity. She is a recipient of the Weiss Fellowship, a Penn State scholarship awarded to students who excel in interdisciplinary work in the humanities and sciences. Currently completing her dissertation, “Enabling Biopower: A Genealogy of Able-Bodiedness,” she expects to complete her doctorate in May of 2011. As a feminist vegan living with a disability and as an advocate for an ethics of nonviolence, she combines her life experience and theoretical interests by striving to create strategic alliances between people with disabilities and nonhuman animals.
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Dr. Les Mitchell
ICAS Africa, Director
Dr. Mitchell, is the Director of the Hunterstoun Centre of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa and an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He gained a doctorate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, for his dissertation titled ‘Discourses and the Oppression of Non-human Animals: A Critical Realist Account’. He has worked in Pathology, Community Health and Education in Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa where he taught sciences in a township school in Grahamstown. His Masters dissertation at the University of Malawi is titled ‘The Relevance of the Malawian MSCE Science Syllabus to the Lives of Young Malawians’. He is on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Animal Ethics and the Palgrave Macmillan Series on Animal Ethics. He published ‘Animals and the Discourse of Farming in Southern Africa’ in Society and Animals, Vol. 14, No.1, 2006, 39-59 and the review, Crying Fowl in the Journal of Animal Ethics (forthcoming). His research interests are critical realism, non-human animals, discourses, power in society, genocide, moral disengagement, and alternatives to violence.
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Dr. Nicola Taylor
ICAS Oceania, Co-Director
Nicola Taylor is the former Executive Director of ICAS. Taylor teaches sociology at Central Queensland University, Australia. Her interests include all aspects of human-animal relationships on a broad level. More specifically her current research links between human directed and animal directed violence; philosophies of animal welfare and animal rights, and, social theories as they pertain to our beliefs about other animals. Having always been interested in animals she was lucky enough to be able to incorporate this into her academic life by completing a PhD on the sociology of animal studies in 2000. Since then she has worked in both the UK and Australia on a number of animal related projects, both academically and community-based. Taylor regularly presents lectures and workshops on human-animal abuse links to various service providers and has been lucky enough to consult with a number of organizations regarding the instigation of numerous projects designed to protect the companion animals of those entering refuges fleeing violence. She believes firmly that in order to secure a better future for all animals (humans included) we need to address broad societal attitudes towards disenfranchised others. This has led to the development of a CD resource called ‘Happy Animals’ aimed at teaching children respect and empathy for animals. This is now regularly used throughout Australia with school children.
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Dr. Richard Twine
ICAS Europe, Director
Dr. Richard Twine is presently in a mostly research position with a focus on animal genomics and biotechnology. He is specifically interested in the different frames, such as sustainability, used to argue for such technologies. His intellectual homes are animal studies, gender studies, environmental ethics and sociological theory. He is also increasingly interested in the global political economy of food; theories and practices of critical posthumanism, as well as rejoining earlier interests in intersectionality theory, including but not limited to theories of ecofeminism. Moreover he has written on the idea of critical bioethics. His academic interests are informed by a commitment to critical thinking, a reflexivity toward the relationships between academia and activism, and a commitment to a posthumanist politics of intersectionality. He also teaches a small amount on subjects as diverse as genomics and society, critical animal studies, and masculinities.
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Dr. Richard White
Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Richard J White is Lecturer of Economic Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. To date, Richard’s main area of research has focused on exploring the geographies of the informal economy in the Minority World/ advanced economies generally, and in particular through understanding community self-help, mutual aid and reciprocity. His research, focused on both affluent and deprived communities, has critically challenged many dominant myths that surround our understanding of contemporary work and exchange in “capitalist” society. In addition to disseminating his research through peer-reviewed journals, Richard has formally participated in conferences and seminars to International and European audiences (ranging from local policy making communities and think-tanks, to high-profile academics, and senior government officials). Richard’s broad teaching and lecturing profile includes: re-thinking the economic in economic geography; philosophical approaches to space and place; alter-globalization groups; the use of direct action within human and animal liberation movements; dissident and moral geographies; and critical pedagogy. Finally, Richard is also currently serving on the Editorial Boards of “The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy” and “Theory in Action, The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute”.
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Dr. Helena Pedersen
CAS Book Series, Co-Senior Editor
Helena Pedersen holds a Ph.D. in education and is a researcher in the School of Education at Malmö University. Her primary research interests include Critical Animal Studies, Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Posthumanism. She is author of Animals in Schools: Processes and Strategies in Human-Animal Education (Purdue University Press, 2010, http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/animalsinschools.html). Animals in Schools recieved the Critical Animal Studies Book of the Year Award in 2010. Other recent works appear in the volumes Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah (Lexington Books, 2010); Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education: Transformative Standards (Routledge, 2009); Global Harms: Ecological Crime and Speciesism (Nova Science Publishers, 2008); and Values and Democracy in Education for Sustainable Development (Liber, 2008). Helena Pedersen received the American Sociological Association’s Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Scholarship (the Animals and Society Section) in 2006. Information on past and present research projects is available on her website: http://www.gender.uu.se/node286
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Ian Smith
College Activism, Director
Smith has been an animal liberation activist for several years. He earned a Master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Connecticut where he focused on ethics and political theory. In addition to working toward animal liberation, Smith has been involved in the labor movement as a union organizer and has served as a student board member for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG). He has worked on numerous environmental, anti-nuclear, and student rights campaigns througout New York State. He is currently a research associate in the Laboratory Investigations Division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
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ICAS South America, Director
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ICAS Asia, Director
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