HAS Fellowship Program 2008
Michigan State University hosted the 2008 Fellowship Program in Human-Animal Studies. Read more about the fellows and about Animal Studies at MSU http://animalstudies.msu.edu/
The 2008 class of fellows is a talented and diverse group:
Karla Armbruster, Associate Professor, English Department, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, (Walking with Wildness: Dogs and What They Can Teach Us About Living on an Endangered Earth)
Jonathan Clark, JD, Ph.D. Student, Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (Political Physiology: The Case of Enviropig)
David Dillard-Wright, Instructor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Aiken, South Carolina (Xenotransplantation and Black Market Organs: Shared Mortality as a Basis for Concern)
Colter Ellis, Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO (The Ranching Lifestyle: Producing Cattle, Gender, and the Environment)
Amy J. Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Media Representations of the 2007 "Pet" Food Recall: The Attribution and Construction of Victimhood and Corporate Responsibility)
Francis Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Management, Collegium of Behavioral Science, Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL. (Organizing and Managing Social Change for Companion Animals: One County's Story)
Lisa Kane, JD, Boulder, CO (Liberating Elephants: Accelerating the Assimilation of Science into Policies Affecting Elephants in Captivity)
The program was hosted by three MSU professors who are noted Human-Animal Studies scholars in their respective fields:
Thomas Dietz, Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program and Associate Dean in the Colleges of Social Science, Agriculture and Natural Resources and Natural Science, http://sociology.msu.edu/tdietz.html
David Favre, Professor of Law, http://www.law.msu.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?prof=12
Linda Kalof, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Community, Agriculture, Recreation & Resource Studies, http://sociology.msu.edu/lkalof.html
We would like to thank those whose support has made the Fellowship possible:
American Humane Association (major sponsor)
American Anti-Vivisection Society
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Best Friends Animal Society
Humane Society of the United States
Special Anonymous Donor
For more information or to comment, contact Ken Shapiro at ken.shapiro@animalsandsociety.org
The 2008 class of fellows produced the following based on their time at North Carolina State:
Karla Armbruster, Associate Professor, English Department, Webster University.
"Into the Wild: An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Human Control of Canine Sexuality and Reproduction." Will be included in a special issue of Journal of Advanced Composition as well as the edited collection, Ecofeminism and Rhetoric (ed. Douglas A. Vakoch, Berghahn Books, 2010). "When Dogs Speak: The Implications of Fictionalized Canine Memoirs," was presented at The Minds of Animals: Conceptions from the Humanities, Sciences, and Popular Culture, August 12-13, 2008, Toronto, Ontario.
Jonathan Clark, JD, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Sociology, Ursinus College.
"Political Physiology: The Case of Enviropig" Dissertation completed Summer 2009.
David Dillard-Wright, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina
"Xenotransplantation and Black Market Organs: Shared Mortality as a Basis for Concern." Article will be submitted Jan/Feb 2009.
Colter Ellis, Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder.
"The Ranching Lifestyle: Producing Cattle, Gender, and the Environment," Paper given at the conference "Animals: Past, Present and Future," Michigan State University, April 16-18, 2009
Amy J. Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor.
"Media Representations of the 2007 ‘Pet' Food Recall: The Attribution and Construction of Victimhood and Corporate Responsibility," Critical Criminology, September 2009. "The ‘Underdog' as ‘Ideal Victim'? The Attribution of Victimhood in the 2007 Pet Food Recall," submitted to the International Review of Victimology.
Francis Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Management, Eckerd College.
"Leading, organizing and managing social change for companion animals: One county's story," Under review at Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science.
Lisa Kane, JD, Co-Founder, Coalition for Captive Elephant Well Being.
An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-Being of Elephants in Captivity, The Center for Animals and Public Policy, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University (2009). "Liberating Elephants: Accelerating the Assimilation of Science into Policies Affecting Elephants in Captivity." Journal of Animal Law, forthcoming 2010.
