Animals & Society Institute News

Policy Corner: The Big Cat Public Safety Act, The FDA Modernization Act, and New York’s Pet Store Sale Ban
Welcome to another year of the Policy Corner! I wanted to start the year off on an optimistic note, because there have been a number of wins in the policy world for nonhuman animals recently. The passage of the FDA Modernization Act marks a turning point in drug development and regulation. In the past, animal testing...

Celebrating 30 Years of Society & Animals: Third Round
As announced in two recent issues, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the publication of Society & Animals, in partnership with Brill Publications we are making ten previously published articles available for a limited time in Open Access. Articles are selected that: (1) demonstrate the expansion of the...

Find Open Access chapters, news, funding opportunities, and much more
Dear Friends and Colleagues, From all of us at ASI, Happy New Year! This month, ASI has been busy publishing within our two managed journals. Both Society & Animals and the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science passed significant milestones last year, with 30 and 25 years of publication respectively. In...

The Animals & Society Institute is Hiring: Executive Director
The Animals & Society Institute is currently accepting applications for the position of Executive Director. About Animals and Society Institute The Animals & Society Institute (ASI), a 501(c)(3) interdisciplinary global nonprofit human-animal relationship think tank, is devoted to advancing human knowledge to...

Announcing the Third Society & Animals Early Career Research Prize
Brill and Animals and Society Institute are pleased to announce the winner of the third Early Career Research Prize. The prize is awarded annually for the best article published in Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies. The purpose of the award is to encourage scholars to join the field and to assist...

Enjoy Open Access chapters, news, funding opportunities, and much more
Happy Holidays and welcome to the Animals & Society Institute's Human-Animal Studies Report! Again this month, the Human-Animal Studies (HAS) field is active and busy with this time an extraordinary wealth of podcasts, recorded seminars and calls for conference presentations. Under the HAS News section, ASI has...

Special Issue of Society & Animals Highlights “Outdoor Cats”
ASI is excited to share the recently published Special Issue of its managed journal, Society & Animals, themed "Outdoor Cats." This Special Issue brings into discussion a diverse set of research from different scholars and different points of view that address the complex aspects and issues relating to outdoor...

25th Anniversary of the Publication of JAAWS: Part 3 – Farmed Animals
As part of the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the publication of JAAWS, the editors and the publisher, Taylor & Francis, are providing access links to the full texts of selected articles that have been published over the years. Below is the third batch of articles the full texts of which are now...

Celebrating 30 Years of Society & Animals: Second Round
The Animals & Society Institute is excited to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies with all of our supporters. As announced in the last issue, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the publication of Society & Animals, in partnership with Brill...

An Interview with the Author: ‘Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks’
We are excited to share the latest release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks, by Sarah Czerny. By asking the question of, “How does milk become cow milk, donkey milk, or human milk?” Czerny takes readers through an ethnographic...