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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...
Policy Corner: Chicken Rescuers, Happy the Elephant, and the Animal Cruelty & Violence Intervention Act
Welcome back to another edition of the Policy Corner! There have been many policy developments in various sectors of late; below are three recent items that could signal a larger change in attitude towards nonhuman animals more broadly. Back in March, two California activists were acquitted of misdemeanor theft...
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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...
ASI’s Response To “Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask?”
Earlier this year, the New York Times published the online article, “Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask?” In this article, the author raises the issue of controlling the urban rat population, and questions what the extraction of rats from the urban environment would do to existing ecosystems....
Animals & Society Institute Appoints New Executive Director: Elijah Brice-Middleton
The Board of Directors of the Animals & Society Institute (ASI) are pleased to announce the appointment of Elijah Brice-Middleton as Executive Director. Brice-Middleton previously served as the Executive Director at Plainfield Area Humane Society, as a fellow at Metro Denver CAT, and as lead admissions counselor...
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute’s Human-Animal Studies Report. The Human-Animal Studies (HAS) field is active and busy again this month. First, note the numerous opportunities for students, scholars, faculty, and those seeking employment in related areas in the Human-Animal...
An Interview with the Author: ‘Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification’
We are excited to share the recent release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification, edited by Julien Dugnoille and Elizabeth Vander Meer. In this book, the term “resistance” is reclaimed by exploring how animals can “resist”...
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute's Human-Animal Studies Report. The Human-Animal Studies (HAS) field is active and busy with this month a plethora of opportunities for students, scholars, faculty and those seeking employment is related areas. In this month in the ASI 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...