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HAS Fellowship Program 2012

The Animals and Society Institute and Wesleyan Animal Studies are pleased to announce the 7 fellows who will be participating in the 2012 ASI-WAS fellowship program for scholars pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies.

This interdisciplinary program enables 6-8 fellows to pursue research in residence at Wesleyan University at the College of the Environment. The fellowship is hosted by Wesleyan faculty Lori Gruen and Kari Weil. Gruen is Chair and Professor of philosophy, environmental studies, and feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Wesleyan, and Weil is a University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan. The fellowship is designed to support recipients' individual research through mentorship, guest lectures, and scholarly exchange among fellows and opportunities to contribute to the intellectual life of the host institution. This year's fellowship will run from May 29-July 6, 2012.

The 2012 fellows are:

Gunnar Theodor Eggertsson, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. "Literal Animals: Animal Stories as Literature of Dissent."

Brigitte Nicole Fielder, PhD candidate, English Language and Literature, Cornell University. "Animal Humanism: Species, Race, and Humanity in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures."

Sarah Hann, DVM. "Current Topics in Veterinary Ethics: Food, Economy, Conservation, and Welfare."

Robert Jones, PhD. Asst. Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Chico. "The Moral Significance of Animal Cognition and the Irrelevance of Species."

Eliza Ruiz Izaguirre, PhD candidate in Animal Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. "Village Dogs in the Rural Coast of Michoacan, Mexico: Exploring Discourses of Villagers and Experts."

Rheana (Juno) Salazar Parrenas, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Harvard University. "Arrested Autonomy: An Ethnography on Orangutan Rehabilitation."

Harlan Weaver, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Encounters with Dangerous Dogs and Dogs in Danger, or Humans and Non-human Animals in Kind."

For bios and photos of the fellows, please visit this page!

For the schedule of the opening workshop, to be held June 4 and 5, and open to the public, visit this page!

The Animals and Society Institute thanks the following organizations for their generous support of the program:

National Canine Research Council (Harlan Weaver Sponsor)
NYU Animal Studies Program (Sarah Hann Sponsor)
The Humane Society of the United States (Eliza Ruiz Izaguirre Sponsor)
Ethics and Animals (Rheana Parrenas Sponsor)
Animal Welfare Trust (Major Sponsor)

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