Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute's September Human-Animal Studies Report. It is always heartening to see growth in the field of Human-Animal Studies (HAS), and this month doesn't disappoint. A new HAS doctoral program and HAS articles in widely disparate journals show that...

ASI Board Member, Julie Iovine, recently published the essay, 'Dog Parks Are Great for People. Too Bad They're Terrible for Dogs.' in the New York Times. In this essay, Iovine describes the ways in which dog parks are often enjoyed more by humans than their dog companions, and writes that “we’d be wiser to think of...

Project-Based Job Opening Oversee the development, implementation, and validation of a psycho-educational diversion program Animals and Society Institute is developing a diversion intervention for adults who have abused animals. As legislation in 34 states mandates or recommends assessment and/or treatment for animal...

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute's monthly Human-Animal Studies Report. Summer is always a time when we regroup, reset, and let our hair down a bit. Most faculty and students take (at least somewhat of) a breather, vacations abound, and things generally move just a bit...

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute’s Human-Animal Studies Report. This month’s Report has a bit for everyone. We at ASI are heartened to see our decades of work into The Link between animal abuse and human violence gaining significant public policy traction with bills...

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute’s Human-Animal Studies Report. As we at ASI prepare to celebrate our 40th anniversary, it is worthwhile to note just how far the organization and the field of HAS have come. A key gauge of this growth is that this may well be one of the most...