Critical Animal Studies Center of Academic Excellence, established in the summer of 2010, is the research division of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS). If your department or program at your university is wanting to conduct research with faculty, staff, undergraduates and graduate students, and wanting to collaborate with ICAS please contact the Director of the Center: Call for a New Director
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Overview of Critical Animal Studies Center for Academic Excellence
The purpose of this Center is to encourage compelling and rigorous scholarship across a variety of disciplines emphasizing the significance and needs of nonhuman animals. This Center seeks to continue the tradition of critical theory, as articulated by the Frankfurt School, that scholarship must necessarily reveal the dynamics of power and influence which underlie and inform social, economic, and cultural arrangements. The Center strongly encourages interdisciplinary projects and cooperation, seeking to promote whenever possible the reality that human and nonhuman animal relationships impact nearly all of human social orders. While carrying forward the mission of critical theory, the Center will not sacrifice scholarship for either expediency or for in pursuit of political ends.
