Brian M. Lowe
ICAS North America Director
Lowe Assistant Professor in Sociology at SUNY Oneonta, received his BAH and Master’s in Sociology from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia. Dr. Lowe’s research and teaching interests include sociological theories, animal and society, cultural and comparative-historical sociology and spectacular conflicts. He is the author of Emerging Moral Vocabularies: The Creation and Establishment of New Forms of Moral and Ethical Meanings (Lexington books, 2006) and several articles. In 2008 Lowe became Chair of the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association.
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Dr. Julie Andrzejewski
Dr. Andrzejewski is a professor, activist scholar, and Co-Director of the Master’s degree program in Social Responsibility at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. She was nominated the CASE Professor of the Year from SCSU in 2003. She has written numerous articles, is the editor of Oppression and Social Justice: Critical Frameworks, and co-author of Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home which was nominated for the Minnesota Book Award and received the national Lambda Literary Award. Andrzejewski has a long history of social action including founding a women’s center, organizing nationally on GLBT, feminist, and disability issues, supporting legal actions against discriminatory institutions, serving as union president, initiating program development and curriculum transformation for global social responsibility; and directing grants to foster global peace and justice. She recently initiated a project to develop national education standards for social justice, peace, environmental, and humane education. In the 1980’s she read Animal Liberation and began changing her own life. She became a vegetarian in 1987 and began moving toward veganism and integrating Animal Rights and AR activism into all her classes in the early 1990’s. She says “moving toward” veganism because she came to understand that being a vegan is far more than what you do or do not eat, it is a comprehensive lifestyle committed to compassion in every area of life (Stepaniak, 2000). She is passionate about teaching Animal Rights and the important connections between animal rights and global social and environmental justice. She is currently writing about Animal Rights and Humane Education.
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Dr. John C. Alessio
Alessio is Professor of Sociology at St. Cloud State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1984. He has also taught at other Universities in the Midwestern and Eastern parts of the United States. He recently completed three years as an Academic Dean at Marywood University in Pennsylvania. Dr. Alessio initiated and co-developed the SCSU Masters Degree in Social Responsibility Program; teaching core courses in the program and serving as the program director before leaving for his dean’s position in Pennsylvania. He now teaches Social Problems and Social Psychology. Dr. Alessio’s research and writing interests have covered several areas. He has contributed to the field of Social Psychology by developing a balance/equity measurement procedure and corresponding formula, which he has applied to the prediction of cohesiveness in relationships. He has also published in other areas such as gender equity and curriculum transformation. As an animal rights advocate, Dr. Alessio has most recently been researching and writing about issues related to the treatment of non-human beings – information which he now integrates into his classes. He is most particularly interested in resolving apparent contradictions in some of the arguments of animal rights activists and scholars.
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Dr. Judy K. C. Bentley
Bentley is Assistant Professor in the Foundations and Social Advocacy Department at SUNY Cortland holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree from Southern Methodist University, a Master’s degree in Special Education/Reading Education from Southwest Texas State University, and a Doctoral degree in Education/School Improvement from Texas State University. Bentley is the Editor and co-founder of the journal Social Advocacy and Systems Change. Her research interests include Symbolic Inclusion, children labeled with “severe/multiple disabilities” as architects of systemic, inclusive education reform, and maximizing the success of students with disabilities in postsecondary education. She can be reached JudyK.C.Bentley@cortland.edu
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Dr. Piers Beirne
Beirne received his PH.D, in sociology from Durham University, England. He is Professor of Criminology and Legal Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to working in Maine he taught sociology and criminology in England, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. He teaches courses on Criminology (CRM215), Crime in Maine (CRM317); Criminological Theory (CRM301); Animal Abuse (CRM 350); and Comparative Criminology (CRM401). His books include an edited 6-volume reprint series The Chicago School of Criminology 1914-1945 (2006, Routledge); Criminology (2006, with Jim Messerschmidt); Issues in Comparative Criminology. (1997, with David Nelken); The Origins and Growth of Criminology: Essays on Intellectual History, 1760-1945 (1994); Inventing Criminology: Essays on the Rise of `Homo Criminalis’ (1993); Comparative Criminology: an Annotated Bibliography (1991, with Joan Hill); Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1938 (1990); Stuchka: Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism (1988, with Robert Sharlet and Peter B.Maggs); Marxism and Law (1982, with Richard Quinney); Pashukanis: Selected Writings on Marxism and Law. (1980, with Robert Sharlet); and Fair Rent and Legal Fiction (1977). With Colin Sumner, he is the founding co-editor of the journal Theoretical Criminology. He likes to sail, kayak and windsurf, and dreams of redoing his 11,000 mile trip on a Triumph motorcycle.
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Dr. Carl Boggs
Carl Boggs is the author of numerous books in the fields of contemporary social and political theory, European politics, American politics, U.S. foreign and military policy, and film studies, including The Impasse of European Communism (1982), The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Dilemmas of Western Marxism (1984), Social Movements and Political Power (1986), Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity (1993), The Socialist Tradition (1996), and The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere (Guilford, 2000). With Tom Pollard, he authored a book titled A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema, published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2003. He edited an anthology, Masters of War: Militarism and Blowback in an Era of American Empire (Routledge, 2003). He is the author of Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). A new book, The Hollywood War Machine: Militarism and American Popular Culture (co-authored with Tom Pollard), was released by Paradigm Publishers in 2006. He is currently finishing a book titled Crimes of Empire: How U.S. Outlawry is Destroying the World. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including Theory and Society (where he is book-review editor) and New Political Science. For two years (1999-2000) he was Chair of the Caucus for a New Political Science, a section within the American Political Science Association. In 2007 he was recipient of the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association. He has written more than two hundred articles along with scores of book and film reviews, and has had three radio programs at KPFK in Los Angeles and was a political columnist for the L.A. Village View during the 1990s. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science at U.C., Berkeley, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis, UCLA, USC, UC, Irvine, and Carleton University in Ottawa. For the past 20 years he has been professor of social sciences at National University in Los Angeles, and more recently has been an adjunct professor at Antioch University in Los Angeles.
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Dr. Jodey Castricano
Dr. Jodey Castricano teaches in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her areas of interest include: critical and cultural theory, including psychoanalysis, feminist, queer, and gender studies in the analysis of literature and film. In the field of Cultural Studies her interests lie in posthumanist questions of representation, race/gender/identity and animal studies. And while one of Castricano’s areas of specialization is Gothic Studies, her research focuses on the history of ideas in the 19th century, particularly in the development of psychoanalysis and its uneasy relationship to psychical research. Before coming to UBC O, she taught courses in literary, film, and cultural studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario and in the joint PhD programme between WLU and the University of Guelph. At UBCO she is currently the Coordinator of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies; serve on the UBCO Senate and sit on the DVC Committee for Human Rights and Equity as well as on the Senate Research and Learning Committee. Castricano has recently been appointed a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics at Oxford University, United Kingdom. http://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/index.php.
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Sarat Colling
Sarat Colling is working on a degree in English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies at Brock University in Ontario. As a project director of the Transformative Studies Institute she founded Political Media Review, a reviewing clearinghouse for social justice media, in early 2009. She is the newsletter editor for the Vancouver Island Vegetarian Association (VIVA) and a film review editor for the Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Sarat grew up on Hornby Island, a small island off the west coast of BC, where her surroundings inspired an interest in animal rights and environmentalism. Her other concerns include disability rights, transnational feminism, and independent media.
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Dr. Karen Davis
Karen Davis, Ph.D. is the founder and president of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. Founded in 1990, United Poultry Concerns addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment, and human companionship situations. Karen has a PhD in English from the University of Maryland-College Park where she taught for twelve years in the English Department. Karen’s articles have appeared in The Faculty Voice (University of Maryland), Journal of English and Germanic Philology, English Language Notes, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and Between the Species: A Journal of Ethics. Her work, letters-to-the editor and op-eds have been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, Washingtonian, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Potomac Gazette, Harper’s Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Minnesota Monthly, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Nation, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, “Dear Abby,” Egg Industry, Feedstuffs, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Canadian Veterinary Journal, and many other publications. Karen has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including The Howard Stern Show, The Daily Show, Fact Finders on WB Channel 11 News @ Ten in New York City, and This American Life on National Public Radio. Karen is the author of several books including A Home for Henny (a children’s book published by UPC); Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless ‘Poultry’ Potpourri (a cookbook published by the Book Publishing Co.); Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (Book Publishing Co.); More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Lantern Books); and The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities (Lantern Books). The New Revised Edition of Karen’s landmark book Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs is being published in 2009.
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Dr. Leesa Fawcett
Dr. Leesa Fawcett has taught Environmental Education, Critical Education for Social Change, Bioregionalism and Culture and Environment in the graduate program. She has also taught the undergraduate courses Foundations of Nature, Technology and Society, and Environmental Education. Leesa has advised students working on topics such as wolf management, science and environmental thought, environmental education through narrative, cross-cultural learning, women in Thailand, traditional ecological knowledge, and deep ecology and ecofeminism. Leesa is a member of the Conservation Biology Society, the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication, the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, and the Toronto editorial group of the international journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. Principal research interests relating to sustainability are: environmental education, sustainable agriculture and food education, human/animal relationships and feminist environmental and cultural studies.
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Dr. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Dr. Fitz-Gibbon is assistant professor in philosophy and chair of the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice (CEPS) at SUNY, Cortland. He is bishop-abbot of the Lindisfarne Community, a neomonastic religious order in the broadly Anglican/Celtic tradition. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. His courses include Philosophical Approaches to Contemporary Moral Problems, War and Terrorism, Ancient Social Philosophy and Social and Political Philosophy. Fitz-Gibbon is Series Editor in social philosphy in the Value Inquiry Book Series with Rodopi. He can be reached at Andrew.Fitz-Gibbon@cortland.edu.
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Dr. Carol Gigliotti
Gigliotti is a writer, educator, and artist, currently teaches Interactive Design and Media at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC. Canada. She has been involved in new media since 1989 and has been writing about ethics and technologies for the last thirteen years. She has returned to teach at ECI from a year off working on a number of writing projects. One project, “Genetic Technologies and Animals” was published this January 2006 as a special issue of the Springer_Verlag journal AI and Society. Gigliotti guest edited this issue which includes her essay, ‘‘Leonardo’s choice: the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies’, and essays by philosopher Steven Best, literary theorist Susan McHugh, feminist biologist Lynda Birke and a dialogue between Gigliotti and cultural theorist, Steve Baker. During the year she was on leave, she began research for a book on “Wildness and Technology” on which she is continuing to work. An essay called “Artificial life and the lives of the non-human,” was published in the June06 issue of Parachute. This essay “engages contested ideas about how and why we need to look closely at assumptions about animal consciousness and animal cognition in artistic practices of the artificial”, and includes discussion of the work of artists, Ken Rinaldo and France Cadet. Her essay, “Sustaining Creativity and the Loss of the Wild” is included in the upcoming Intellect Press collection edited by Mel Alexenberg, Educating Artists in a Digital Age: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture. “Shifting Vision: the importance of metaphor in the recent work of M. Simon Levin” an essay commissioned by Surrey Art Gallery for the upcoming digital catalogue on the recent environmental work of M. Simon Levin, will be published early next year. In the past few years she gave the keynote at Interactive Futures 05 at the Victoria International Independent Film Festival on the ethics of artists working with biotechnologies and the opening keynote at the NEW FORMS 05 Festival at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC. on “The Power of the Non-Human.” Gigliotti is Co-Chair of Research Cluster B at the innovative Centre for Interactive Research in Sustainability (CIRS), and developed and teaches the Michael Davies Seminar on Environmental Ethics in the Humanities area at ECI.
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Amie Breeze Harper
Amie Breeze Harper was born and raised in Lebanon, CT. She attended Dartmouth College as an undergraduate and Harvard University for her Masters program in Educational Technologies. In Fall 2005, she embarked on the first ever book project that brings together the voices of Black female vegans living in North America. The book, entitled, Sistah Vegan! Food, Health, Identity and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak will be released Fall 2007. Currently, she is a PhD student in Nutritional Geography at UC Davis where she is focusing on the intersections anti-racist praxis, critical race theory, and whiteness studies as it applies to the health and food ways of Black identified people living in the USA.
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Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter
Dr. Kaltefleiter is Coordinator of Women’s Studies and Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the State University of New York College at Cortland. She has over twenty years of broadcast activism experience as a news anchor and producer for public and community radio stations in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and New York. She served as producer and director of the documentary “Burn Out in the Heartland,” a 60-minute piece that investigates the crystal methamphetamine culture among teens in Iowa and Nebraska. She continues to work on radio documentaries for National Public Radio and anchors a radio program titled The Digital Divide on Public Radio station WSUC-FM. She received her PhD from Ohio University in Communication and Women’s Studies. She holds an MA from Miami University and participated in the Center for Cultural Studies where she began her research on youth subcultures and activism including work on Youth Culture Capitalism, Post-Feminism, and Popular Culture. Her forthcoming text (Garland Press) Revolution Girl Style Now: Trebled Reflexivity and the Riot Grrrl Network, examines the Girl feminist movement and its use of alternative media forums such as ‘zines, websites, and mp3 musical recordings. Her current research project articulates cyberfeminism within a discourse of new media studies. The project examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of women’s lives within contemporary technoscientific cultures. She can be reached at Caroline.Kaltefleiter@cortland.edu.
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Dr. Elliot M. Katz
Katz is the president of In Defense of Animals (IDA), which he founded in 1983. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and practiced veterinary medicine in Brooklyn, New York before moving to California. IDA is an international animal protection organization dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by protecting their rights, welfare and habitats, and by raising their status beyond that of mere commodities, property, objects or things. Through investigative and advocacy work and through their chimpanzee sanctuary in Cameroon, Africa, veterinary clinics in Mumbai, India, and their 64-acre sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals in rural Mississippi, IDA has been a powerful voice and force for change. Dr. Katz is the father of daughters Danielle and Raquel, and lives in Corte Madera, California with his beloved rescue dog Charlie.
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Dr. Lisa Kemmerer
Dr. Lisa Kemmerer earned a Masters Degree in Theology from Harvard Divinity School and her PhD in Philosophy from University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has also traveled widely, spending several years in Asia, with a special interest in exploring Asian religions. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Montana State University, Billings, teaching courses in philosophy and religious studies, including feminism and animal liberation. Lisa has written, directed, and produced two documentaries on Buddhism, and also numerous articles in the area of philosophy and religions. She has most recently published Ethics and Animals: In Search of Consistency (Brill, 2006), and has two books forthcoming: The Buddha, the Bible, and the Beasts, and Real Christians Don’t Eat Meat.
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Dr. Charlotte Laws
In Spring 2004, Charlotte Laws was elected to her first political office as a councilperson for Valley Glen, California. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Ethics from the University of Southern California (USC) and has completed doctoral level coursework at UCLA. She also earned two B.A. Degrees, in Philosophy and Theatre Arts, from California State University (Northridge) and two Masters Degrees, in Social Ethics and Professional Writing, from USC. She has lectured and written articles in the following areas: the philosophies of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Russell and Mill, postmodernism, ethics, animal liberation/rights, environmentalism, philosophy of science, social philosophy, political theory, and First Amendment law. Some of her more mainstream articles have appeared in Newsweek, Publisher’s Weekly, and the L.A. Times. For three years, she was also a regular contributor to California magazine, focusing on philosophy, politics, law, and social issues. Her first book was published in 1988, and her second book entitled Armed for Ideological Warfare, exploring Spinoza and the animal rights movement, will be released in Spring 2005. She has been interviewed on number of television shows, including Larry King Live, Fox News, The Late Show, and Oprah Winfrey. Charlotte has been a vegetarian since 1981 and is the Founder and President of the League for Earth and Animal Protection (LEAP), which advocates and educates on behalf of nonhumans and the environment. The website is www.LEAPnonprofit.org
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Dr. Bill Martin
Bill Martin earned his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas, where he worked on continental philosophy, analytic philosophy, and social and political philosophy, and also on literary theory in the Departments of English and French. Bill wrote his dissertation with Gary Shapiro, on Derrida’s philosophy in relation to social theory. This became Bill’s first book, Matrix and line (SUNY, 1992). He has now published nine books, most recently Ethical Marxism: the categorical imperative of liberation (Open Court, 2008). Much of his work is motivated by an ongoing conversation between Kantian and Marxist themes, and he does extensive work in twentieth-century Marxism, including especially Benjamin, Adorno, and Marcuse, Sartre, Althusser, and Derrida, and, more recently, the work of Alain Badiou. He continues to engage with themes and figures in analytic philosophy, including Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, Quine, and especially Donald Davidson. Bill has also written extensively on creative currents in rock music, and to a lesser extent in jazz and Western classical music. He is a musician himself, having played the bass guitar for more than thirty-five years, as well as writing music. Bill’s current projects include a book on the post-Maoist current of Badiou’s philosophy, and a book taking account of Harry Frankfurt’s concept of “bullshit” in a social-political context. At some point he hopes to pull back momentarily from all of the political stuff to turn his attention toward writing a book on Wittgenstein and chess. In addition to his vocations as a writer and musician, Bill is an avid bicyclist and chess player.
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Anthony J. Nocella, II
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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Dr. David Nibert
David Nibert is Professor of Sociology at Wittenberg University, where he teaches Animals & Society, Global Change, Social Stratification and Law and Society. He has worked as a tenant organizer, as a community activist and in the prevention of mistreatment and violence against devalued groups. He is the author of Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (Rowman/Littlefield) and Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: State Governments and the Taxing of Dreams (Monthly Review Press). He has published articles in such journals as Child Welfare; the Journal of Interpersonal Violence; RESPONSE: To the Victimization of Women and Children; Critical Sociology; Race, Gender, Class; Society and Animals; and the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. He co-organized the section on Animals and Society of the American Sociological Association. His research interests include the historical and contemporary entanglement of the oppression of humans and other animals.
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Norm Phelps
Phelps an animal rights activist for 25 years and is the former spiritual outreach director of The Fund for Animals, as well as a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV). Phelps is the author of The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible, The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights, and The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA. A frequent speaker at animal rights conferences, he has contributed two articles to the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, a chapter in the forthcoming Call to Compassion, and an entry in The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. His primary areas of interest are animal rights and religion, the moral foundations of animal rights, and the strategy of the animal rights movement.
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Dr. Constance Russell
Dr. Constance Russell, MES (York), PhD (Toronto), is Associate Professor and Chair, Graduate Studies and Research in Education in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University. She is the co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education and co-editor of the (Re)thinking Environmental Education book series with Peter Lang Publishing. She is Chair of the Ecological and Environmental Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association. Her research on environmental and humane education, ecofeminist and queer pedagogy, human/animal relations, nature experience, wildlife tourism, representation of other animals and nature in environmental education research, interdisciplinary and academic/activist collaboration, and generous scholarship has been published in journals like Society and Animals, Environmental Education Research, Journal of Environmental Education, Applied Environmental Education and Communication, and Journal of Experiential Education, as well as in numerous edited books. For more information, please see http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~crussell/.
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Dr. Anuj Shah, J.D.
Dr. Anuj Shah, J.D., is a producer and host of Vegan World Radio and practices Immigration Law and Animal Law in Houston. Anuj also earned his Ph.D. in Eastern and Western/Comparative Philosophy in Honolulu, HI. He studied Master’s level work in French Literature at the Sorbonne. Anuj was a member of the National Society for the Defense of Animals while in Paris. While in Honolulu, he served for four years on the Boards of both the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii and Animal Rights Hawaii. Anuj is currently a member of both the Texas State Bar and the Houston Bar Association’s Animal Law Sections, as well as the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
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Dr. Maxwell Schnurer
Maxwell Schnurer received his Ph.D. in rhetoric from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. A long time animal rights activist, Schnurer’s work focuses on social movements, cultural change, and activist strategies. He is the co-author of Many Sides: Debate Across the Curriculum (Idea Press, 2000) and a contributor to Terrorists or Freedom Fighters: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (Lantern Books 2004).
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Dr. Cary Wolfe
Dr. Cary Wolfe is Dunlevie Professor English at Rice University. His books and edited collections include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” from the University of Minnesota Press (1998), Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory from the University of Chicago Press (2003), and the edited collection Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, also from Minnesota (2003). He is currently finishing a fourth book, What Is Posthumanism?, and a co-edited collection with Branka Arsic entitled The Other Emerson. He is founding editor of the new series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press, which will publish four books a year, and continues to research and publish widely in areas such as systems theory, pragmatism, animal studies, posthumanism, poststructuralism, and American culture. He has delivered numerous lectures, keynote addresses, plenary talks, roundtables, and seminars in both North America and Europe in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, the UCLA Humanities Consortium, The Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and the annual Summer Academy in Frankfurt, Germany, among others.
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