ANIMALS AND SOCIETY INSTITUTE & WESLEYAN ANIMAL STUDIES
The Animals and Society Institute and Wesleyan Animal Studies runs annual summer fellowships for scholars pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies.
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List of Funding Opportunities
A range of links to funding opportunities for Animal Studies related activities.
CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES: An Introduction
Dawne McCance. SUNY Press, 2012 Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies
EXPERIENCING ANIMAL MINDS: An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters
Edited by Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell. Columbia University Press, 2013
In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them.
BEFORE THE LAW: Humans and other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics.
Journal of the History of Biology – special issue
The May 2013 issue of the Journal of the History of Biology is a special issue featuring four research papers on the Early Modern history of animal experimentation.
Critical Animal Studies Series
The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is pleased to invite proposals for a new book series, Critical Animal Studies, to be published by Rodopi Press, one of Europe’s premiere academic presses.
Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures is an exciting book series, co-edited by historian Nigel Rothfels and anthropologist Garry Marvin, and published by the Pennsylvania State University Press.
Journal of Animal Ethics
The Journal is a focus of inquiry, argument, and exchange dedicated to exploring the moral dimension of our relations with animals.
CFP: Environment, Space, Place
The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary journal, Environment, Space, Place (ZETA Books), is under new editorial direction and is looking for articles from contributors that make the ‘geographical turn’ in their research by framing, or making thematic, the spatial/placial component of the earthly/worldly phenomena.