Past Award Winners

2021 Annual Critical Animal Studies Award Winners

  • Critical Animal Studies Grassroots Project of the Year
    CAFTUSA – https://caftusa.org/
    Sage Mountain – https://www.sagemtn.org/
    Vegan Publishers – https://veganpublishers.com/
    AfroVegan Society – https://www.afrovegansociety.org/
    Black VegFest – https://blackvegfest.org/
  • Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year
    My Octopus Teacher (2020)
    Breaking the Chain (2020)
    The Animal People (2019)
    The Game Changers (2019)
    Long Gone Wild (2019)
    Sled Dogs (2017)
    Okja (2017)
    What the Health (2017)
    COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
    Fed Up (2014)
  • Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year
    Essay: Why Did Gerasim Drown His Mumu? Animal Subjectivity in Turgenev’s “Mumu”  (JCAS, 17, 4, 2020)
    Anastassiya Andrianova
    Essay: How do You Know His Name is Gabriel? (JCAS, 17, 5, 2020)
    Anne J. Mamary
    Essay: Reflections on Daniel D’Amico’s Defense of Factory Farming (JCAS, 17, 2, 2020)
    Thomas Raskin
  • Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/Thesis of the Year
    The Pragmatism of Animal Libreration (SCAS 2020 Conference)
    Samyuktha Iyer
    Veganism is deciding that you are against all oppression’: A thematic analysis on the link between veganism and antiracism
    Rafail Simoni
  • Critical Animal Studies Graduate Paper/Project/Dissertation of the Year
    Issue Introduction: Biography as a Lens into Social Relations with Nonhuman Others  (JCAS, 17, 5, 2020)
    Nathan Poirier
    Peace Studies Journal     (PSJ 13, 1) Guest Editor: Annie Bernatche
    Peace Studies Journal (PSJ 13, 2) Guest Editor: Annie Bernatche and Sarah Tomasello
    Peace Studies Journal (PSJ 13, 3) Guest Editor: Sarah Tomasello
    Essay: The Emotional Politics of Images: Moral Shock, Explicit Violence and Strategic Visual Communication in the Animal Liberation Movement (JCAS, 17, 4, 2020)
    Laura Fernández
    Essay: The Proximity Paradox: Understanding Reality through Animals and Fiction (JCAS, 17, 4, 2020)
    Margaret Villari
    Essay: Pig-Ignorance: The “Peppa Pig Paradox”: Investigating Contradictory Childhood Consumption (JCAS, 17, 5, 2020)
    Lynda M. Korimboccus
    Essay: “Oh! They’re Not Slimy!” An Ethnographic Exploration of  Human-Snake Encounters     (JCAS, 17, 2, 2020)
    Cynthia Rosenfeld
  • Critical Animal Studies Book of the Year
    Education for Total Liberation: Critical Animal Pedagogy and Teaching Against Speciesism (2019)
    by Anthony J. Nocella II, Carolyn Drew,  Sinem Ketenci, Amber E. George, John Lupinacci, Ian Purdy, Joe Leeson-Schatz
    Voices for Animal Liberation: Inspirational Accounts by Animal Rights Activists (2020)
    by Brittany Michelson
    Brotha Vegan: Black Men Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society (2021)
    by Omowale Adewale
    Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination (2020)
    by Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis, and Jeff Shant
    Neoliberalism and Academic Repression: The Fall of Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump (2020)
    by Erik Juergensmeyer, Mark Seis, and Anthony J. Nocella II
    Critical Pedagogical Strategies to Transcend Hegemonic Masculinity (2021)
    by Amber E. George and Russell W. Waltz

2012 Annual Critical Animal Studies Award Winners

  • 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