Past Award Winners

2012 Annual Critical Animal Studies Award Winners

• Critical Animal Studies Grassroots Project of the Year
  “Food Empowerment Project”: http://www.foodispower.org/

• Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year
  “Conflict Gypsy”: http://www.conflictgypsy.com/

• Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year
  Dr. Lori Gruen, “The first 100”: http://first100chimps.wesleyan.edu/

• Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/Thesis of the Year
  Lara Drew: “Freirean Pedagogy and Activism: Radical Adult Education in the Animal Liberation Movement”

• Critical Animal Studies Graduate Paper/Project/Dissertation of the Year
  James Stanescu: “The Abattoir of Humanity: Philosophy in the Age of the Factory Farm”

• Critical Animal Studies Book of the Year
  Jason Hribal: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance

2011 Annual Critical Animal Studies Award Winners

• Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper of the Year
  “Animal Experimentation and the Law: Are the Laws Enough?”
  Tayler Staneff, Brock University

• Critical Animal Studies Graduate Paper of the Year
  “Gender and Slaughter in Popular Gastronomy”
  Jovian Parry, York University

• Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year
  Bold Native (Open Road Films 2010)
  Denis Henry Hennelly, Director

• Critical Animal Studies Academic Book of the Year
  Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (Earthscan 2010)
  Richard Twine, Lancaster University

• Critical Animal Studies Activist Book of the Year
  Muzzling a Movement: The Effects of Anti-Terrorism, Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism (Lantern Books 2010)
  Dara Lovitz, Temple University and Drexel University

2010 Annual Critical Animal Studies Award Winners

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

• Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year
  Skin Trade (Animal Rescue Media Education (ARME) 2010)
  Shannon Keith, Director

• Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper of the Year
  “King Kong: The Effects of Film, Imagery and Literature on Perceptions of Gorillas”
  Natalie Gilbert, 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