Current Annual Award Winners

2010 Critical Animal Studies Annual Awards

Critical Animal Studies Book of the Year
“Animals in Schools: Processes and Strategies for Human-Animal Education” (Purdue University Press, 2009)
Helena Pedersen

Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year
Skin Trade: What’s your skin worth?” (Animal Rescue Media Education (ARME), 2010)
Shannon Keith

Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper of the Year
“King Kong: The Effects of Film, Imagery and Literature on Perceptions of Gorillas”
Natalie Gilbert, Wildlife & Environmental Photography, at Blackpool and the Fylde College

Critical Animal Studies Graduate Dissertation of the Year
“The Broken Promises of Monsters: Haraway, Animals and the Humanist Legacy”
Zipporah Weisberg, York University

Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper of the Year
“Animal Histories”
Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature and the Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz

Critical Animal Studies Faculty Project of the Year
“The Effects of Development on Andean Animals”
María Elena García, Assistant Professor, Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington

Britches Scholar of the Year
Laura Shields, Saint Louis University
Assistant Editor and Film Review Editor, Journal for Critical Animal Studies

Tyke Scholar of the Year
Vasile Stănescu, Stanford University
Co-Senior Editor of the Critical Animal Studies Book Series