Nobel Laureate in Literature 2003
Among his many works the following are especially relevant to animal ethics:
The Lives of Animals (2000), Elizabeth Costello (2004), and Disgrace (2005).

International philanthropist and pioneer in the field of animal protection.

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester.

Founder and Chairman of the Marchig Animal Welfare Trust.

Theologian, literary critic, and pioneer in the religious foundations of animal rights.
Books include: Celestial Pantomime: Poetic Structure of Transcendence (1979), Hopkins Re-Constructed: Life, Poetry and the Tradition (2000), and Popes and Politics: Reform, Resentment, and the Holocaust (2005).

completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford where he served as Tutor in the Study of Religions in the Faculty of Theology. Presently, Dr Barsam is a Lecturer in Theology and Philosophy at Yerevan State University in Armenia, where he has also held positions with the Armenian Foreign Ministry and the U.S. Embassy. He has written numerous articles on theology and animals, including two entries on ‘St Francis of Assisi’ and ‘Albert Schweitzer’ (with Andrew Linzey) in Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment, edited by J. A. Palmer, (Routledge, 2001), and co-authored with Andrew Linzey, an entry on ‘Cloning of Animals in Genetic Research: Ethical and Religious Issues’ in David N. Cooper (Editor-in-chief) Nature Encyclopaedia of the Human Genome (London: Nature Publishing Group, 2003). His book: Reverence for Life: Albert Schweitzer’s Great Contribution to Ethical Thought was published by Oxford University Press in 2007.

holds the Joyce and Edward E Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University. He specialises in animal ethics, more specifically in their legitimate moral status and the extent, scope, and content of human obligations to nonhuman animals. In addition to working on papers in these areas, Professor Bernstein is in the process of writing a book on partiality. This work examines the grounding and justification of extending special consideration to the interests of some groups based on particular relationships that obtain among the members of that specific group (e.g., family, nationality, religion, and species). Part of the argument will show that species membership, in and of itself, holds no moral significance. Professor Bernstein’s books include Fatalism (University of Nebraska Press, 1992), On Moral Considerability (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Without A Tear (University of Illinois Press, 2004).

is Research Fellow in Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Canon Theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese. After a physics degree at Griffith University, Brisbane, he studied theology at St Francis’ College and the University of Queensland. His honours thesis on Don Cupitt was published as Atheist Priest! Don Cupitt and Christianity (SCM, 1988). His doctorate on Jesus’ uniqueness and finality appeared as Is Jesus Unique? A Study of Recent Christology (Paulist, 1996). He has also written on the distancing of God from modern scientific imagination, including a discussion of animal suffering and the problem of evil, in A God for This World (Continuum, 2000), the emerging Church in God’s Next Big Thing: Discovering the Future Church (Garratt, 2004), and in more popular vein with The Ten Commandments and Ethics Today (Acorn, 2008). His latest book Abiding Faith: Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety and Violence (Cascade, 2009) includes discussion of violence against animals as a subset of the modern West’s defining need to control ‘the other’. He is currently working on René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture and Crisis (University of Notre Dame Press). Dr Cowdell was a parish priest in Brisbane and Canberra, taught at Trinity College, Melbourne, and was Senior Lecturer in Theology at Flinders University, Adelaide, where he was also Principal of St Barnabas’ Theological College. A former Editor of St Mark’s Review, he is also on Australia’s Anglican Doctrine Commission, contributing to its publications on lay presidency, women bishops, homosexuality, clergy sexual abuse and, most recently, violence against animals and the environment.

is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Logsdon School of Theology, Hardin-Simmons University, located in Abilene, Texas. In her fourteenth year at Logsdon, Dr Pigott teaches both undergraduates and masters students. Her primary area of research has been focused on women in the Deuteronomic History, and she has published several articles related to that subject, including ‘Saul and the Not So Wicked Witch of Endor’. Review & Expositor 95 (Summer 1998): 435-44, and ‘Wives, Witches and Wise Women: Prophetic Heralds of Kingship in 1 and 2 Samuel’, Review and Expositor 99 (Spring 2002): 145-73. Her commentary on Leviticus is published in the The IVP Women’s Bible Commentary, ed. Catherine Clark Kroeger and Mary J. Evans, 50-69. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002. She is currently writing several brief articles for Inter-Varsity Press’s New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Dr Pigott is taking a sabbatical in the fall of 2007, the focus of which is animal ethics and theology. She will be travelling to several institutions in the United States to dialogue with various scholars involved in the animal rights movement. She wants to pursue research in animal theology from a biblical scholar’s perspective and hopes to make a significant contribution to the literature on the subject.

is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, Florida. He received a DPhil from Oxford University, and over the past two decades has worked at several universities in the UK, USA, and Ireland, and has held visiting fellowships at universities in Iceland, Finland, and Australia. Professor Rowlands’s research has primarily focused on issues in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy. In the former area, his published work includes Supervenience and Materialism (Ashgate, 1995); The Body in Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1999); The Nature of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press 2001); Externalism (Acumen, 2003); Body Language (MIT Press, 2006), and The New Science of the Mind; Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended (MIT Press, 2008). In the area of moral philosophy, he has written extensively on the moral status of non-human animals and the natural environment. Here, his publications include: Animal Rights (Macmillan, 1998); The Environmental Crisis (Macmillan, 2000), and Animals Like Us (Verso, 2002). He has also put a not inconsiderable amount of effort into convincing the general public of the wonders of philosophy. The resulting books were The Philosopher at the End of the Universe (Ebury, 2003), and Everything I Know I Learned From TV (Ebury, 2005). His books have been translated into more than ten languages. His autobiography, Who Speaks for Wolf? will be published by Granta in 2008.

completed her doctoral studies in the University of Turku, Finland (after spending a period as a Visiting Doctoral Student in the Institute for Ethics, Environment, and Public Policy at Lancaster University). Her PhD thesis on “Animal Individuality: Moral and Cultural Categorisations” explored the possibility of “animal personhood” from the point of view of moral theory and cultural context. She has published a book titled Eläinten Moraalinen Arvo (“The Moral Value of Animals”) (Vastapaino 2004), which investigates the major theories in animal ethics. She has written “Animal Ethics and Interest Conflicts”, Ethics & the Environment 10:1, 2005, and over 30 papers and articles on animal ethics, both in Finnish and international journals. In 2007, she edited the Finnish translation of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, with the addition of two of her own articles on recent developments concerning the use of animals in Finland and the rest of the European Union. She also holds an MA in Film and Television Studies, and completed her thesis on the cultural depiction of animal monstrosity. Her present research interests include casuistic and Wittgensteinian accounts on animal ethics, the representation of animal suffering, and the various normatively loaded concepts used to exclude non-human animals from the realm of serious moral consideration. Dr Aaltola has frequently promoted veganism in the Finnish media. She currently works as a Visiting Research Fellow in Moral Philosophy in Manchester Metropolitan University.

is a Medical Officer in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. At the FDA, she conducts post-marketing surveillance of biological products, such as vaccines, to help ensure public safety. Dr Akhtar is double Board-certified in Neurology and Preventive Medicine and received her Masters in Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC). She previously served on the UNC Institutional Review Board for the protection of human research participants. She also previously served as medical and research adviser to a non-profit health advocacy organization, where she promoted scientifically and ethically superior alternatives to the use of animals in medical experimentation, especially in neurological experiments. She has published numerous letters and Opinion-Editorial pieces and has been interviewed by major newspapers, scientific journals, and radio and TV news programmes. She strongly believes that by extending compassion to other animals by ultimately replacing their use in experimentation with more advanced experimental methods and by consuming more plant-based diets, humans will also benefit, ethically, socially, and health-wise. Her most recent publication, titled ‘Animal models in spinal cord injury: A review’ in Reviews in the Neurosciences (2008), explores the scientific problems associated with animal experiments for the study of human spinal cord injury. She intends to further explore how human welfare and animal welfare are interconnected and to examine issues of animal protection from ethical, scientific, and public health perspectives.

is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University and also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Chatham College, Pittsburgh. She was formerly lecturer at West Virginia University Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Religious Studies. In 2006, she completed her doctorate at Duquesne University with a dissertation on ‘Kantian Meadows: A Just Nursing Home Grounded in the Categorical Imperative’. She has taught courses on Logic, Biomedical Ethics, Feminism, Business Ethics, and the Philosophy of Law. Dr Bjalobok’s research interests are in applied ethics in general and the animal question in particular. She is especially concerned with our moral obligation to ageing and ill non-human animals with whom we have shared our lives. Her current book project is The Barn (based on her own experience of caring for rescued and homeless animals) which examines all the animals that live there, their relationships with each other, and with her as primarily the caregiver and food source. The goal is to apply different philosophical perspectives on friendship and other relations to the relationships that the animals share. She also intends to critically examine the society at the barn in relation to Plato’s idea of the just city (simple city).

is an Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia. She is a linguist and a legal scholar. She was educated in China and Australia in both linguistics and law. Currently, she is Deputy Editor of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and has published extensively in the areas of legal language, legal theory, legal translation, and philosophical and linguistic analysis of Chinese law and legal culture. Some of her books include Chinese Law: A Language Perspective (Ashgate, 2004), Translating Law with a Foreword by Justice Kirby of the High Court of Australia (Multilingual Matters, 2007), and joint editor of Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning (Springer, 2006). For the past few years, she has been researching and teaching animal law. Her latest book is Dongwu fei wu (Animals are not things: Animal law in the West) with a Preface by Peter Singer (China Law Press, 2007). Currently, she is writing about the place of animals in Chinese philosophy, culture and law, and is co-authoring a book on animal law for Chinese law students. She has also been promoting the research and teaching of animal ethics and animal law in Chinese law schools and arguing for the reconsideration of human and nonhuman animal relationships as an intellectual and ethical concern in China. She is currently also writing a book in English on animal law in the Australian context for the law publisher Thomson.

is an Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Canada. A scholar in the history of ideas of the nineteenth century, as well as a life-long animal rights advocate, her research has turned towards the ethical obligations that humans have towards their non-human counterparts. Her forthcoming collection of essays, to which she is a contributor, is entitled Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), and is concerned with the lag in the field of Cultural Studies where critiques of racism, sexism(s) and classism have radically changed the face of the humanities and social sciences, but which have also historically withheld the question of ethical treatment from non-human animals. In this regard, she organised the first panel (‘The Question of the Animal: Why Now?’) of its kind at the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies to critique the division between human and non-human animals in this field. She is developing an upper division undergraduate course on this same question and participating in the ‘Nature matters, materiality, and the more-than-human in cultural studies of the environment’ conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her research aims to call into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. A long-time member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and as a scholar, she works to end animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums.

lectures in Health Care Ethics in the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, where he teaches medical undergraduates and postgraduates in a range of programmes in the University’s Medical School. He has MA degrees in Religious Studies, Theology, and Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven, and a PhD in Environmental Ethics from the University of St Andrews. His main research interest is in animal ethics, and particularly in the ethical issues related to the consumption of animal products. He is currently researching the ethics of dietary choices (including a discussion of omnivorous, vegetarian, and vegan diets) and the public health effects of human diets, including the costs and risks related to obesity and obesity-related diseases, zoonotic diseases, environmental degradation, and climate change. Dr Deckers would be pleased to hear from prospective graduate students who wish to pursue research in bioethics. His publications include ‘Vegetarianism, Sentimental or Ethical?’, in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 2009, 22(6), 573-597, and ‘What Policy Should Be Adopted to Curtail the Negative Global Health Impacts Associated with the Consumption of Farmed Animal Products?’, in Res Publica 2010, 16(1), 57-72. Some of his publications are available in the author’s version here. For a full list of his publications, see here.

is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Seattle. He is the author of fifteen scholarly books, several of which deal with the topic of animal rights: The Philosophy of Vegetarianism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984) could more appropriately be titled ‘Ancient Philosophical Vegetarianism’ in that it deals with ancient Greek philosophy and the status of non-human animals; Hartshorne and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988) argues for animal rights in the context of process or neo-classical philosophy of religion; Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997) deals with the issue of moral patiency as it relates to both non-human animals and non-rational human beings. About one-third of another book deals with animal rights: Not Even a Sparrow Falls: The Philosophy of Stephen R. L. Clark (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000). The stance in philosophy of religion that underlies much of his work in animal rights is detailed in Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Recent articles on the topic of animal rights include: ‘Is the Argument from Marginal Cases Obtuse?’ in the Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2006): 223-232, and ‘Whitehead and Non-human Animal Rights’, forthcoming.

is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Women’s Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate where he has taught since 1988. He is the past Chair and current Secretary/Treasurer of the Section on Animals and Society of the American Sociological Association. Dr Flynn serves on the editorial boards of both Society & Animals and Anthrozoos. In 2001, his Animals and Society course was chosen as the ‘Best New Animals and Society Course’ by the Humane Society of the United States, and was featured on “The Osgood File” on CBS radio. He has written numerous articles on animal abuse and its relationship to family violence. Dr Flynn is the author of ‘A Sociological Analysis of Animal Abuse’, in Frank Ascione’s (ed) The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research, and Application (Purdue University Press, 2008). He is also the editor of a new anthology titled Social Creatures: A Human and Animal Studies Reader (Lantern Books, 2008).

is Professor of Politics, and Head of the Department of Politics, at the University of Leicester. He has previously taught at the Universities of Exeter and Buckingham. He has published widely on the politics and philosophy of animal rights. His major publications are Political Animals (Macmillan, 1998); Animals, Politics and Morality (Manchester University Press, 2004, second edition); The Political Theory of Animal Rights (Manchester University Press, 2005), and Animal Ethics (Polity, 2005). The focus of Professor Garner’s principal research interest has been on the moral relationship between humans and animals, particularly from the perspective of political philosophy. This has involved documenting the neglect or dismissal of the concept of animal rights in the liberal tradition of political thought, defending animal rights from within the liberal tradition and exploring the relationship between animal protection and other political traditions. He is currently embellishing this work by seeking to develop a viable liberal-based theory of justice for animals.

is Director of Theology and Religious Studies Programmes and Staff Lecturer in the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, and also a member of the Faculty of Theology. He also teaches in the School of Theology, Philosophy, and History at Saint Mary’s University College, Twickenham. He is a Foundation and Professorial Fellow of the Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana. A Greek-Catholic Melkite priest, he is one of the Ethnic Chaplains for the Melkite Catholic community in the UK. Professed as a Benedictine of Farnborough Abbey, he studied at the Franciscan Study Centre, Canterbury, University of Kent, University of London, and Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. His doctorate from the University of London was on Liturgical Theology, specifically the relationship between sacred and liturgical space. In recent years, he has taught Liturgy and areas of Systematic Theology at Heythrop College, London, Saint John’s Seminary, Wonersh, and Saint Mary’s University College, Twickenham. His research interests build upon his work on the liturgical environment and sacred space and have led him to re-examine the Christian tradition in order to develop a spirituality for eco-theology, including a reappraisal of this tradition for a developed theology for animals and sentient life. Dr Gibbons recent book was House of God: House of the People of God (SPCK, 2006) and he has recently contributed chapters to Ecumenism Today (Ashgate, 2008) and Foundation Theology (Victoria Press, 2008). At present, he is working on two books, A Spirituality for the Environment (to be published in 2009 by the Victoria Press) which builds on his Graduation Address on the Environment at the Graduate Theological Foundation, and a book on The Domestic Church for SPCK. He is also part of a group working on issues concerning immigrant communities of Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Christians in the UK.

is a practising Barrister and a member of Exchange Chambers in Liverpool and Manchester. She was called to the Bar in 2001 by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn and began her career working predominantly in the field of Criminal Law. Her practice developed and she now specialises in the areas of Personal Injury and Employment Law. She maintains a keen interest in Animal Law and is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare. Before pursuing her vocation as a Barrister – and gaining her Diploma in Law at City University, London – Laura-Jane studied for a BA Honours Degree in Philosophy and Theology at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. Her passion for enhancing the ethical status of animals motivated her undergraduate dissertation entitled: ‘Animal Rights and Human Morals’. Laura-Jane’s paper critically examines The Rights of an Animal written by the Oxford Scholar and Bodleian Librarian, Edward Byron Nicholson in 1879. She places Nicholson’s pioneering work within the context of the emerging Humanitarian and Zoophily movements of the nineteenth century and considers the adequacy of his theoretical arguments in relation to the practical moral questions which he raises.

is Associate Professor of Psychology at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. She is a research developmental psychologist and a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. Professor Gullone’s research has focussed upon the emotional development of children and adolescents, including empathy development. She has published over 80 articles in internationally renowned journals in addition to several invited chapters, and has co-edited a book on the quality of life. In addition to her focus on human well-being, over the past decade Professor Gullone’s work has extended to an examination of humans’ relationships with non-human animals. In particular, she has focussed on the increasingly recognised link between human violence and animal abuse. Related to this, she has been involved in the only Australian study existing to date to demonstrate the significant link that exists between animal cruelty and family human violence. She has also completed several works examining the underlying commonalities between children’s relationships with other children and animals. She is also the founder and convenor of the Australian Psychological Society Interest Group on the Promotion of Animal Welfare.

is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, and has published in the fields of 20th century European Philosophy and Animal Ethics. His work in the former discipline has appeared, among other places, in Continental Philosophy Review, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, and The Philosophical Review. In Animal Ethics, Professor Halteman’s research has focused primarily on the importance of moral concern for animals in religious traditions, especially on the spiritual disciplinary prospects of exercising this concern through the daily practice of compassionate eating. His booklet Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation was recently published by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and will serve as an integral component of a new national initiative – HSUS Animals and Religion – that seeks to promote concern for animals among religious audiences. Professor Halteman’s animal ethics and activism course, ‘Peaceable Kingdom: Transforming Our Relationships With Animals’, was recently honoured with the 2007 Animals and Society Course Award for Innovation. His guiding aspiration is to produce work that facilitates fruitful interaction between scholars and activists for the purpose of engendering well-researched, well-argued public education on the moral standing of animals.

is Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology at University College, London. He was recently Visiting Lecturer in Roman Art at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Professor Henig has written numerous books, including: The Art of Roman Britain (new edition 1995), Roman Oxfordshire (2000), Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology (2001), and The Heirs of King Verica: Culture and Politics in Roman Britain (2002). He has also published major catalogues of Roman Sculpture for the British Academy (The Cotswold Region (1993) and North West Midlands (2003) with London and the South East in preparation, and on Roman gems, including with A. MacGregor, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems in the Ashmolean Museum II. Roman (Archaeopress 2004)). From 1985 to 2007, he was Editor of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, which specialises in Medieval art and architecture. In 2007, he was presented with a Festschrift: Pagans and Christians – from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (edited by L. Gilmour) on his 65th birthday. Professor Henig has been accepted for ordination by the Church of England, and will shortly begin his theological training at St Stephen’s House, Oxford. He intends to make evangelism on behalf of animals a major part of his ministry.

is a writer, researcher and practitioner of ethics and eating. Her early architectural training brings a spatial perspective to her philosophy and twists to well trodden ethical problems. Her PhD from the University of Queensland, entitled: ‘Eating the Other: Levinas’s Ethical Encounter’, is a journey toward the potential (and otherwise) of Emmanuel Levinas’s emerging ethical subject. The journey reaches its catastrophic height and ethical limit as it carves through a landscape replete with scenes of industrial food production. Since being awarded her PhD in 2005, she has held an Honorary Research Associate position in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland and has continued her explorations of food ethics in both practical and theoretical ways. In her work as a chef, Dr Hirst’s experience extends from vegan cooking to other-than-vegan ethical alternatives, such as paying scrupulous attention to the provenance of animal products. This practice has so far taken her to kitchens in Australia, Vietnam, Ireland and the UK. Her current research continues this practice to the philosophical, paying particular attention to the dilemma of being both a lover of animals and a lover of food. Her publications include: ‘Levinas separates the (hu)man from the non(hu)man, using hunger, enjoyment and anxiety to illuminate their relationship’, Cosmos and History (upcoming 2007); ‘Avoiding ethics in an inner city suburb’, New Talents 21C 2006 (Australian Public Intellectual Network, upcoming 2007); and ‘Eating ethnicity: multicultural food practice and the production of urban space’, in Additions to Architectural History: Proceedings for the XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (eds J. Macarthur and A. Moulis. Brisbane: Sahanz, 2002).

lectures in systematic theology at Laidlaw College and Graduate School in Auckland, New Zealand. She studied mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington, biology at Newcastle University, Australia, and completed a theology doctorate at Drew University in the USA. Dr Hoggard Creegan became interested in animal theology through her research and teaching at the interface of evolutionary biology and theology. She has written a number of papers in animal theology, including one on the ‘salvation of creatures’, which is forthcoming in a book titled Salvation, edited by Ivor Davidson (Basingstoke: Ashgate), and has published ‘On being an animal and being made in the image of God’ for the journal Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, November 2007. She was the guest editor of that issue devoted to animal issues. Dr Hoggard Creegan is now writing a monograph on Animals, Evil, and Nature Red in Tooth and Claw. She was a participant in the 2003-2005 Templeton Oxford Seminars in Science and Christian Faith, and she chairs a local interdisciplinary initiative, TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences in Aotearoa). She also writes a column on science and faith issues for the journal Stimulus (New Zealand journal of Christian thought and practice).

is an Associate Professor of Law, Ethics, and Environmental Studies at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches environmental law and animal law. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and a certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. She received her MPA from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs with a focus on international environmental policy. Her BA in history was from Indiana University. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation at Portland State University, where she is developing a Foucualtian study concerning the conception of nonhuman animals in Western political thought. Her primary research interests include the legal status of animals, religion and animals as it has informed political and secular modern thought, moral theory relating to animals, and animal ethics. She has written several teaching cases, book chapters, articles, and book reviews concerning animals. She has won several awards for her teaching cases from Indiana University/Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and from the North American Case Research Association, and she has received two awards for teaching at her university. She has recently joined the Journal of Animal Ethics as Consultant Editor.

has completed a PhD thesis at the University of Wales at Lampeter on whether there can be a Roman Catholic theology of animals. Since 1999, she has been General Secretary of Catholic Concern for Animals (see www.catholic-animals.org) and Editor of its journal The Ark, with additional sub-editing and freelance homiletic writing. Previously, for two years, she was editor of the national weekly newspaper The Catholic Herald. Prior to that, from 1980 to 1996, she was Director of Adult Religious Education in the Diocese of East Anglia, with additional part time work, including Staff Lecturer in Religious Studies at Suffolk College, Ipswich; Deputy Editor of Priests & People; first Administrator of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation, and a distance learning Tutor for Westminster College, Oxford. She studied at the Regina Mundi Pontifical Institute in Rome, and subsequently gained an MA in Pastoral Theology through the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge. Dr Jones is a member (and former committee member) of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain.

is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University and founder of the University’s graduate specialization in Animal Studies: Humanities & Social Science Perspectives. She specialises in the cultural representations of humans and other animals and the links between culture and nature, and teaches courses in visual sociology and animal studies. She has published more than 30 articles and book chapters and seven books including: Looking at Animals in Human History (Reaktion, 2007), The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings (Berg, 2007), A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity (Berg, 2007) and The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values (Earthscan/James & James, 2005). In addition to serving as a General Editor for the multi-volume A Cultural History of Animals, she is also editor of A Cultural History of the Human Body and Human Ecology Review, a peer-reviewed academic journal on the interaction between humans and the natural world. Her published articles on animal studies include animals in art history and in the contemporary media.

is a London-based veterinarian and veterinary ethicist. After completing a combined BSc/BVMS at Western Australia’s Murdoch University in 2001, Andrew gained a post-graduate Certificate in Animal Welfare Science in 2005, and also passed the U.S. national and Californian veterinary licensing examinations. In a range of biomedical journals, he has published a substantial body of large-scale systematic reviews establishing the poor biomedical and human clinical utility of animal experimental models, describing alternative methodologies, and describing the adverse impacts of harmful animal use within education, on the development of student and veterinary attitudes toward animal welfare. Recent examples include: “The beginning of the end for chimpanzee experiments?” Philos Ethics Humanit Med 2008, 3:16; “Systematic reviews of animal experiments demonstrate poor contributions toward human healthcare”, Rev Recent Clin Trials 2008, 3(2): 89-96; “Non-animal methodologies within biomedical research and toxicity testing”, ALTEX 2008, 25(3): 213-231, and “Advancing animal welfare standards within the veterinary profession”, REDVET 2008, 9(10B). Three of these studies attracted awards at the 5th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Berlin, 2005; the 13th Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing, Linz, Austria, 2006; and the Conservation and Animal Welfare Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006. Andrew’s main fields of expertise include animal experimentation, educational animal use, alternative methodologies, and vegan companion animal diets, although he has a strong interest in a broad range of bioethical issues. Andrew is the President of Animals Count - a UK political party for people and animals, and the Director of Animal Consultants International – which provides multi-disciplinary expertise on animal issues. Actively involved in animal advocacy since the early 1990s, Andrew successfully campaigned for the first humane veterinary surgical training programme in Western Australia, while studying there in 2000. For his nationwide promotion of humane teaching methods he jointly received the inaugural World League for the Protection of Animals Award for the Promotion of Compassion for Animals, in 2000, together with Sydney veterinary student Lucy Fish.

is Associate Professor in the Programme in Religion of Hunter College, The City University of New York where he regularly teaches a course dealing with religious interpretations of nature and of animal life. He holds degrees in Religion from Kenyon College (Gambier, OH, USA) and Columbia University (New York), and has been a Fulbright scholar in Philosophy at Alberts-Magnus University, Freiburg-im-Breisgau. His focal interest is in the radical reconstruction of religious thought which summons humans to be the conscience of nature, an idea first articulated in his dissertation ‘Keeping Faith With the Dead’ in which he interpreted that constitutive religious virtue as a protest against natural conditions. For a time, he was Co-Chair of the Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion, and is known for his published speculative essays in gay theology. More recently, he has authored Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods (Haworth, 2004) and the lead essay, “Disarming Biblically Based Gay-Bashing,” in The Queer Bible Commentary, edited by D. Guest et al (SCM Press, 2004) – both of which are studies in gender implications of interpretations of male homosexuality in traditional religions. A former professional ballet dancer, he hopes eventually to be able to articulate a platform from which one can appreciate modern sports and classical ballet as spiritually significant rituals. However, he is currently engaged in broadening his work in gay theology and religious reconstruction in a committed effort to establish and foreground human ethico-religious obligations towards animal life.

is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University. He is currently serving as Editor of Between the Species a philosophical journal on animal issues. Dr Lynch has published articles on animal consciousness, animal belief, and theodicy and animal pain. His general research areas are in the philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and Asian philosophy. Among other topics, Dr Lynch is currently interested in Buddhist perspectives on the moral status of animals. In addition to the American Philosophical Association, he regularly affiliates with the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts.

is Professor of English at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. He gained his BA in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and his MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in Literature from Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation (1989) was on “The Language of Modernism”. He is the author of Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (Macmillan and NYU Press, 1998) and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), and the editor of A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age (Berg, 2007). He serves on the editorial boards of Society & Animals and Brill’s Human-Animal Studies book series. He is also an International Associate of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury. In addition to his scholarship, he has had numerous appearances in popular media on the topic of animals; many of these are linked from his webpage. His interests include, generally, anthrozoology, and more specifically, zoos; cultural representations of animals; ecology, eco-criticism and environmentalism; and cinematic figurations of animals. He is a Patron of the Captive Animals’ Protection Society (UK).

is a Distinguished Professor, and former Head of the Department of Religion, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is also Editor of Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature. With a background in science (genetics), philosophy, literary criticism, and bioethics, her research is interdisciplinary, and her teaching extends as well across the fields of religion, literature, philosophy, ethics, and disability studies. Dr McCance has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on life-ethics and on animal ethics in particular, and is now working on a book manuscript, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, on the concept of life, and on the distinction between animal and human life, in the work of Jacques Derrida. Her 2004 book, Medusa’s Ear, traces the figure of the deaf-mute female in Derrida’s readings of the philosophy of the modern research university, uncovering links between notions of disability and of animality in this philosophical tradition. She contributed a paper on the feral child of Aveyron to a special issue on disability and film published by the Canadian Journal of Film Studies (Spring 2008), and published a chapter on ‘the animal’ in early modern anatomy in Animal Subjects (2008). Dr McCance recently edited two special issues of Mosaic that deal with ‘the animal’ issue (The Animal Part 1 39.4, December 2006; The Animal Part 2 40.1, March 2007).

is the Director of the Hunterstoun Centre of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He gained a doctorate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, for his dissertation on ‘Discourses and the Oppression of Non-human Animals: A Critical Realist Account’. He has worked in Pathology, Community Health and Education in the U.K., Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa where he taught sciences in a township school in Grahamstown. His Masters dissertation at the University of Malawi is titled ‘The Relevance of the Malawian MSCE Science Syllabus to the Lives of Young Malawians’. He gives talks at schools and has made a number of presentations at Rhodes University, where he is a member of the Ethics Committee, and at the Ethics Society of South Africa, as well as publishing ‘Animals and the Discourse of Farming in Southern Africa’ in Society and Animals, Vol. 14, No.1, 2006, 39-59 and ‘Moral Disengagement and Support for Nonhuman Animal Farming’ (forthcoming). He recently organized the Hunterstoun Symposium on Nonhuman Animals, the first of its kind in Southern Africa. His research interests are critical realism, non-human animals, discourses, power in society, genocide, moral disengagement, and alternatives to violence.

is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Media Professional Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her PhD entitled ‘Discourses of anthropomorphism’ explored the practices which humanise nonhuman animals and the critiques and appropriations of anthropomorphism that resonate through and regulate our everyday encounters with nonhuman animals and the construction of their representations within science, philosophy, and popular culture. She has authored a journal article on anthropomorphism and animal/human identity, and co-authored a book chapter on elephants and national identity in videogames (‘Picturing South Asian Culture in English: Textual and Visual Representations’). Her forthcoming publications include a chapter on media discourses of ‘dangerous dogs’ for the volume Theorizing Animals, and a chapter on narratives of technological animals for an edited collection on cultural views of animals. Also forthcoming, her monograph Memento will be published in 2009. Her current research interests include wartime home food production, cultural representations of albinism, and contemporary anthropomorphic practices. Dr Molloy is co-founder of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network.

has completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. His thesis topic was ‘The Life Ethic: Moral Biocentrism and the Concept of Bio-Respect’. Previously, he gained a Master of Philosophy degree at the Pontifica Universidade Católica with a thesis on contemporary environmental ethics, and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) which included a dissertation on the moral status of the non-human. Since 2003, he has been a Researcher with the Grupo de Pesquisas Integradas/Dialética at the Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil. In 2006, he obtained a grant from the Brazilian governmental funding agency to become a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He has presented papers at academic conferences in Lisbon, Cambridge, and Gramado, Brazil. His publications include: Ética & Animais: um guia de argumentação filosófica (Ethics and Animals: A Guide to the Philosophical Arguments) (Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2006), and ‘Ética e os Não-Humanos’ (Ethics and Non-Human Beings) in Ética: crise e perpectivas (Ethics: crisis and perspectives) (Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2004).

is currently Senior Lecturer, and Programme Leader for Film Studies, at the University of East London. She was a doctoral student at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and received her DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford, and holds an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex. She was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, and has taught English and American literature at Oxford and Brunel Universities. Her book Creaturely Poetics: Animality, Vulnerability and the Identity of Species (Columbia University Press, 2010) comprises two interrelated areas of enquiry: (1) Ethics: articulating a basis for an inclusive ethics, distinct from rights-based and utilitarian discourses, rooted in the universal condition of vulnerable bodies – whether human or not. (2) Aesthetics: exploring the ‘creaturely’ dimension of culture – especially literature and film – by arguing that the non-human (animality, the vegetative, the inanimate) pervade and transform the otherwise human countenance of civilization. Dr Pick’s research explores the potential for rethinking concepts of ‘humanness’ and our moral obligations towards animals via several thinkers, the most important of whom is the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil. Dr Pick has published work on Henry James and Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, post-humanist literature, Nietzsche’s animals, Giorgio Agamben, art-house, and documentary cinema.

is Associate Professor for Ethics and Christian Social Thought in the Department of Catholic Theology at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria, where he has taught since 1992. He was a lecturer at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, a Fulbright Scholar at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the ethics of civil disobedience (Ziviler Ungehorsam. Aschendorff, 1992), his post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) examined the relation of therapeutic self-actualization to the common good (Tanz um das goldene Selbst? Styria, 2001). During the past decade, his research interests have increasingly focussed on the sociology of religion, especially, secularization, desecularization, fundamentalism, and on animal ethics, particularly justice for and generosity towards animals as an integral part of a consistent ethic of life, and animals in world religions (on the latter topic he has contributed a chapter in the book Tierrechte. Eine interdisziplinaere Herausforderung, Harald Fischer, 2007). He has also voiced his concern for animals in numerous lectures and newspaper articles, on the radio and on TV. Since 2008, Professor Remele has been the Vice-President of the Austrian section of the international Catholic peace movement Pax Christi.

is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Arizona State University and has over 20 years of practice and management experience in a combination of public health and child welfare. She has authored/co-authored many publications and presented numerous scholarly papers and workshops to various state and national groups. Her primary areas of research are the animal-human bond and child welfare. Her course – Animal-Human Connections – won the HSUS 2004 Society and Animals New Course Award, and she has a grant-funded national study of social work practitioner’s knowledge of the animal-human bond, and a grant funded field internship with an animal welfare agency. She chairs The Arizona Humane LINK, a coalition of animal welfare and human service agencies in Maricopa County, Arizona, which sponsors an ‘Investigating and Treating Animal Cruelty: Creating A Humane Community’ conference annually. She grew up on a farm in Connecticut, where her father and grandfather practised veterinary medicine. She does hands-on rescue work, including volunteering at the Best Friends Katrina shelter in Tylertown, and helped found a TNR feral cat program at Arizona State University. She currently lives in a trans-species cultural home with 14+ other animals.

is a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. She qualified as a solicitor with Messrs Freshfields, solicitors in London in 1996, and subsequently returned to academia. In 2004, she created an option on the undergraduate law degree in the emerging subject of Animal Law. The current syllabus involves a critical analysis of the legal and moral status of animals; an in-depth examination of the Animal Welfare Act 2006, and an analysis of the law and ethics relating to farm animals and animal experimentation. In 2007, she created the Animal Law Centre, which aims to promote the study of Animal Law in UK universities. The Centre works in association with the Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare to encourage critical analysis of existing animal laws and academic debate about the scope and nature of future animal legislation in the UK. The Centre also provides an on-line resource for academics and students studying Animal Law in the UK. In 2008, the Centre hosted an Animal Law guest speaker programme, which included the Head of the Wildlife Crime Unit for the Metropolitan Police. Deborah’s publications in the area of Animal Law include an article on ‘The legality of factory farming’ in the Journal of Animal Welfare Law, Vol. 6, June 2007, which was followed by a conference paper on the subject delivered at the Society of Legal Scholars conference in September 2007. In addition to Animal Law, she also lectures in Property Law. Her books include: Rhona Smith, Lynne Murrell, and Debbie Rook, Conversion Course Companion for Law (Pearson, 2008), Property Law and Human Rights (Blackstone Press, 2001), Distress for Rent (Blackstone Press, 1999).

is an Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. She received her BS in mechanical engineering (magna cum laude) and JD (Order of the Coif) from the University of Southern California and her MS in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She worked at the law firm of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles California and clerked for the Honourable Marianna Pfaelzer in the Central District of California before coming to George Washington University. During that time she also served as convener of the Advisory Group on Federal Benefits to the Gender Bias Task Force of the Ninth Circuit. Professor Schaffner teaches Civil Procedure, Remedies, Sexuality and the Law, and Animal Law Lawyering, and writes in these areas as well. She is the faculty adviser to Lambda Law, the GLBT student organization at George Washington, and is faculty adviser and editor-in-chief of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. Professor Schaffner directs the George Washington Animal Law Programme which consists of the George Washington Animal Welfare Project (AWP), a pro bono effort of faculty and students devoted to researching and improving animal welfare laws in the District of Columbia; the Animal Law Litigation Project, a partnership with the Humane Society of the United States, designed to provide clinical litigation opportunities to George Washington law students on HSUS projects; seminars in animal law; and a student chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) to which she is faculty adviser. Professor Schaffner has testified on behalf of non-breed-specific dangerous dog laws and the DC Animal Protection Amendment Act of 2007, spoke on the first Animal Law panel as part of the SALT Cover Public Interest Retreat, is Vice-Chair, Publications Chair, and Editor of the newsletter of the ABA TIPS Animal Law Committee, Founding Chair of the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on Animal Law, and consumer member for the District of Columbia Board of Veterinary Medicine. Professor Schaffner’s articles in the area of animal law include:  “Feral Cats, Their Caretakers and the Law; Ensuring a ‘Yes-Pets’ Rule; Linking Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Animal Cruelty, and Vicious Dog Laws Unconstitutional in Ohio”. Professor Schaffner is a volunteer for Washington Humane Society, fosters feline families, and is committed to saving the lives of homeless animals. She lives with many felines, Jackie, a Jack Russell, and Rocky, a brilliant African Grey parrot.

is the Anglican Chaplain of Liverpool Hope University, where he is also holds ‘recognised researcher’ status and contributes to teaching in the Theology and Religious Studies Department. He previously completed his doctoral research on Kierkegaard at Cambridge University. Alongside a number of articles and chapters, his books include Kierkegaard, Language and the Reality of God (Ashgate, 2001), The Inclusive God: Reclaiming Theology for an Inclusive Church, co-authored with Hugh Rayment-Pickard (Canterbury Press, 2006) and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction (SPCK, 2007). He has recently completed a book, provisionally entitled Prayers for an Inclusive Church, due for publication in October 2008, and is working on an introduction to Derrida for theologians. In May 2008, he delivered a paper entitled ‘Walking on the Wild Side: Church and Identity Beyond Western Humanism’ to the ‘Church and Postcolonial Identity/ies’ conference organised by the Lincoln Theological Institute at Manchester University. His research interests include the philosophical distinction between humans and animals, particularly in recent continental philosophy, and the links between discourses on species, colonialism and sexuality.

is currently Dean of the Faculty of Media, Humanities and Technology and Senior Dean at the University of Lincoln (UK) and is about to take up the post of Executive Dean of Arts at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has previously worked at the Universities of Wales, Aberystwyth, Exeter, Winchester, and Edge Hill. His base discipline is English literature and he began life as a medievalist working on non-courtly chivalric romance and the transmission of medieval English texts into the early modern period. He has published widely on subjects ranging from Andy Warhol to the history of Hampshire cricket. He now works exclusively on the cultural representation and cultural history of animals. His major publications in the field to date are Animal Rights and the Politics of Literary Representation (Palgrave, 2002) and Rossetti’s Wombat (Middlesex University Press, 2008). He is currently working on The Tiger that Swallowed the Boy – study of exotic animals in Victorian England for Middlesex University Press, and Vegetarianism around the World: An Encyclopaedia of Beliefs, Practices and Food for Greenwood Press. His next project will be a book on the introduction of British wildlife to Australia.

is Manager of the Department of Cellular Pathology for the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, and was formerly the lead scientist and Manager for the Department of Cellular Pathology at Epsom General Hospital. He has also held the position of Designated Individual under the Human Tissue Act for the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Biologist, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science, a Zoologist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and member of the Pathology Council of the Society. His past role working in veterinary science in the zoo industry convinced him that zoos offer nothing to conservation, education, or animal welfare. This led him to work for the abolition of this industry, and he has for several years been the scientific consultant for the Captive Animals’ Protection Society: an organisation committed to ending the keeping of animals in zoos and circuses, and halting the trade in animals for the exotic animal pet trade. He has lectured at all levels of education on such subjects as science and ethics, the zoo industry and its contribution to animal suffering, the animal and public health risks of animal captivity, human and animal pathology, and healthcare science. He has also presented on such subjects on radio and television, in the press, and at conferences. His publications range across biomedical science, wildlife conservation, animal captivity, and education. He developed and led a conservation and education project (‘Operation Curieuse’) in the Republic of The Seychelles to protect the endangered Aldabra Giant Tortoise. Because of the local knowledge he gained from leading this project, he was invited by a travel agent to lead a wildlife holiday in the Islands. The activities involved in this holiday and the impact that they had on the wildlife and the environment made him realise the danger presented to the natural world by ecotourism. His current research interest is in the field of zoonotic diseases, how animal captivity leads to the proliferation of such diseases, and how these impact on animal and human health and the environment.

is an animal rights scholar whose research interests embody the ambitious goal of articulating a new ethical philosophy: best caring ethics. This moral theory defends strong animal rights (which includes human rights). He completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2000 and also an Advisory Research Committee Post-Doctoral Fellowship, centring on the ethics of vivisection, at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, in 2002. His chief publications include: (1) ‘The Rights of Animal Persons’, Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal 4 (1) (2006): 1-37; (2) ‘Animal Rights Law: Fundamentalism versus Pragmatism’ Journal for Critical Animal Studies 5 (1) (2007): 1-37; (3) ‘Can the Treatment of Animals Be Compared to the Holocaust?’ Ethics and the Environment 11 (Spring 2006): 97-132; (4) ‘A Living Will Clause for Supporters of Animal Experimentation’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (May 2006): 173-189, and (5) ‘Marxism and Animal Rights’, Ethics and the Environment 2 (Fall 1997): 169-85. The first article listed anticipates a forthcoming book which reflects the best caring ethics justification of animal rights, also accounting for competing theories and objections. Best caring ethics is intended to offer a synthesis of ideas that reflects the advantages, but not the disadvantages of competing ethical theories. The second article is intended as a refutation of the views of those who reject all “animal welfare” legislation. It is argued that substantial animal welfare laws, at least, are not only consistent with animal rights theory more fully articulated, but can be part of a program that is maximally conducive towards an animal rights society in the long-term. The third article tries to offer the most detailed and defended comparison between animal oppression and the Holocaust. Dr Sztybel’s family contains Holocaust survivors. The fourth essay shows that those who defend medical vivisection targeting animals on the ground that it is overall most beneficial should sign a living will to the effect that they volunteer to be so vivisected should they suffer from mental disability—making them cognitively equivalent to laboratory animals—which involves quite a bit of cognition! Finally, although not a Marxist, Sztybel shows in the last publication how ‘From each according to his/her abilities, to each according to his/her needs’ is a communist principle that logically leads to an affirmation of radical animal rights. Dr. Sztybel instructs mainly in Critical Animal Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

is a Lecturer and a Researcher in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Udine, Italy. After a degree in Humanities at the University of Trieste, Italy, in 1996, she specialised in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Padua, and received her PhD in 2006 for a dissertation on the anthropology of the animal rights movement. Her work was published in 2007 as Diritti Animali. Storia e antropologia di un movimento (Forum Ed.). Dr Tonutti is currently working at the Department of Economics, Society and Territory (University of Udine, Italy) and has carried out ethnographic research in Italy, Switzerland, and Great Britain. Her studies focus on human-animal relationships, new social movements (and particularly animal advocacy as a social and cultural phenomenon), biodiversity and local knowledge, anthropology of food, and epistemological reflections on the human-animal divide in anthropology. She is the author more than 30 articles and the following books: Water and Anthropology (EMI 2007); Manuale di zooantropologia (Meltemi, 2007, with R. Marchesini), and Animali magici (De Vecchi, 2000, with R. Marchesini).

is the Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Business Ethics and Director of the Centre for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Professor White received his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and taught at Upsala College (1976-89) and Rider University (1989-94) in New Jersey before moving to California in 1994. His publications include five books: Right and Wrong (Prentice Hall, 1988), Discovering Philosophy (Prentice Hall, 1991), Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1993), Men and Women at Work (Career Press, 1994), and In Defense of Dolphins (Blackwell 2007), and numerous articles on topics ranging from sixteenth-century Renaissance humanism to business ethics. For the first twenty years of his career, Professor White specialised in the moral, social and political thought of Sir Thomas More. Since then, he has concentrated on contemporary applied ethics. His most recent research has focused on the philosophical implications – especially the ethical implications – of the scientific research on dolphins. His book on this topic (In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier) addresses the ethical issues connected with human/dolphin interaction – in particular, the deaths and injuries of dolphins in connection with the human fishing industry and the captivity of dolphins in the entertainment industry. The book argues that dolphins should be considered nonhuman persons and that the current state of dolphin/human interaction is ethically indefensible. He is currently studying the parallels between defences of slavery two hundred years ago and contemporary defences of the deaths, injuries and captivity of dolphins at the hands of humans. Professor White is a Scientific Adviser to the Wild Dolphin Project, a research organisation studying a community of Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas. He is also an Ambassador of the United Nations’ Year of the Dolphin programme. He was the 2007 Verizon Visiting Professor of Business, Ethics and Information Technology at the Centre for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.

serves as National Coordinator, Discipleship Resource Development for National Ministries, American Baptist Churches, USA. Dr Williams has worked in Christian educational development since 1998. She is interested in the processes by which persons are moved to change long-held beliefs and long-standing practices. She received her EdD from Union Theological Seminary/Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. In her doctoral dissertation, ‘Andrew Linzey’s Animal Theology and the Educational Ministry of the Christian Church: Guidelines for Educating Toward Transformation of the Human/Animal Relationship’, she sought to draw insights from Linzey’s writings and place them alongside the work of transformational educational theorists to outline an effective teaching approach for potentially controversial topics. A second area of interest lies in the development of a creation/creature theology that integrates the biblical witness and bridges the gap between environmentalists and animal proponents. Her publications include: Children Among Us: Foundations in Children’s Ministries, (ed), Louisville: Witherspoon Press, 2003; Children, Poverty, and the Bible, Valley Forge: National Ministries Communications, 2006; ‘Introduction for Parents and Leaders’, Tobee and the Amazing Bird Choir, Louisville: Bridge Resources, 1999; Left Behind: The Facts Behind the Fiction Companion Guide (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2006); ‘Liberating the Enlightenment: How a Transformed Relationship with Animals Can Help Us Transcend Modernity’, Religious Education, Vol. 98, Winter 2003, 95–107; ‘Please, Don’t Call Me a Vegetarian’, Horizons, Summer 2000, and ‘Sunday School Lessons’, Christian Citizen: Voices for Biblical Justice, Vol. 2, 2004.

is a Secular Franciscan, and Educational Coordinator for the School of Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York. The School is part of the internationally-known Franciscan Institute, and a leader in the field of Franciscan teaching, research, and publication. She previously held teaching appointments in English and the Humanities, including Adjunct Instructor in English at Strayer University, Washington D.C. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from St Bonaventure’s University, and two master’s degrees in English Literature from State University of New York at Buffalo, and Humanities from SUNY (State University of New York) College of Fredonia, both awarded summa cum laude. Her articles, interviews, and poetry have been published in many journals, including: Array, The Cord, Metropolitain, St. Andrew’s Press, and Olympus. Her particular interest is in pioneering a contemporary Franciscan understanding of animal life, especially as it relates to the Franciscan mission of ‘Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation’. This means expanding the ‘umbrella of ecological stewardship’ within the Franciscan family to include working for the ethical treatment of animals.

is a doctoral student at the University of Birmingham’s Graduate Institute of Theology and Religion. Her research area is the relationship between modern Christianity and vegetarianism from 1847 to the present and considers the impact of Christian vegetarian sects, or mainstream Christian groups that have recommended vegetarianism to their membership, on the secular vegetarian movement in the UK. Her first publication: ‘A Taste of Eden: modern Christianity and vegetarianism’ is to be published in Journal of Ecclesiastical History in July 2007.

was recently appointed to the Critical Animal Studies probationary tenure track position in the Department of Sociology at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. She will be teaching two “Animals and the Law” courses, and an “Animals and Human Society” course during her first year. She is completing her PhD in Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her dissertation, “The Ventriloquist’s Burden (?): Voice, Animals, and Community Radio” analyses voice and its relationship to nonhuman animal subjectivity. In 2006, she taught a course entitled, “Human/Non-Human Animal Relations,” which focused on feminist, critical race, environmental, and labour approaches to “the question of the animal.” She has been a host and producer of the weekly radio show/podcast, Animal Voices since 2001. The programme promotes critique and coalition-building across environmental, social justice, and animal movements, while also highlighting animal-oriented scholarship. She is currently editing a “best of” Animal Voices anthology. Lauren has been interviewed for Satya, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, and Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism. She was the guest editor for ‘Animal,’ the newest issue of Undercurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies.

is the recipient of a Classics Scholarship from University College, Oxford, to pursue a DPhil in Classics. Previously, she gained a double first in Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford, and at finals came in the top ten of her year, receiving the Gaisford essay prize from the faculty for the best undergraduate thesis in Classics. She has been awarded numerous other prizes, including the Gibbs Prize in Classics, the Lady Norma Dalrymple-Champneys Prize, and the C. E. Stevens scholarship for travel, as well as being awarded full AHRC funding to complete a Masters in Classics, also at Oxford. She has just edited a newly discovered papyrus of Homer’s Iliad for the Oxyrhynchus collection which will be published in a forthcoming volume of the journal, in addition to being employed part-time as a cataloguer for the Oxyrhynchus collection which involves identifying unpublished papyri and creating a new database for them. Her research interests include Greco-Roman attitudes to, and representations of, animals in literature and philosophy. She is President of the Animal Ethics Society for undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Oxford.

received her MA in theological studies from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. Her thesis was entitled: ‘Here Below: Extending Honesty and Moral Imagination to All Creatures’. The thesis is directed to a North American Mennonite audience, with the mandate to apply their non-violent ethic more comprehensively, and employs ethical critique, historical analysis, and biblical exegesis to re-examine commonly cited justifications used to dismiss animals as a population worthy of theological and ethical scrutiny. Additionally, Brianne’s ongoing study of global religions, mythology and metaphysics may prove to intertwine with theological engagement of human/non-human relationships. Her interest in process philosophy/theology as well as her focus on the erotic component of sensory completion offers myriad sources of ongoing comparison and contrast between the human/non-human world. Her work includes unpublished papers on ‘A Hermeneutic of Creatures’, ‘Animals and the Early Church’, and ‘Our Moral Compass: Animals in the Wisdom Tradition’.

teaches European law, and sport and the law at the University of Limerick, where she is also Course Director for Law and European Studies, and Law Plus. She has published in the areas of drug testing and the rights of athletes, elder law, the regulation of football agents, TV rights in Irish football, EC competition law, and animal welfare in the EU. She is currently co-authoring the third edition of Modern Irish Company Law with Professor Henry Ellis. She graduated with a master’s degree in Law from the University of Limerick in 2002, and is currently pursuing a PhD through the School of Law, at Queen’s University Belfast. Her doctoral work combines her interests in sport, law, and animal welfare by examining the regulation of animal cruelty in sport. She is examining animal welfare from a socio-legal perspective focusing on the development of animal related legislation in Ireland and Britain, and its application to animals involved in fox hunting, hare coursing, greyhound racing, and dog fighting.

is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. Her dissertation is titled: ‘The Animal Self: Autonomy and Animal Ethics’. The goal of the thesis is to develop a new theory of animal ethics that focuses on the importance of autonomy and the ability to form a self-concept in animals, using current research in animal cognition, self-awareness, including an analysis of the concept of autonomy in moral theories. Her first degree was in Philosophy from the University of Guelph, and her master’s degree (also at Guelph) was in the area of environmental ethics and the concept of intrinsic value – an area in which she continues to research, with an emphasis on the relationships between humans, non-human animals, and nature. She has taught at the University of Waterloo, University of Guelph, and Wilfrid Laurier University in the areas of applied ethics, and to a community group that raises awareness on the links between human-animal violence. She has unpublished papers on ‘Animal Consciousness and the Mischievous Whale’, and ‘Korsgaard’s Fellow Creatures: Are Animals Ends-in-themselves?’

is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied Classical Archaeology and Ancient History and was awarded a first class BA, coming top of his year and being awarded the Thomas Whitcombe Greene award for performance in Classical Art and Archaeology. As an undergraduate, he received the Fell exhibition at Christ Church. After his BA, he worked at the New College Library at Oxford on a project tracing the library’s benefactions from the fourteenth century to the early twentieth century. He has been awarded a Studentship to study for a Master’s in Classical Archaeology, also at Christ Church, and subsequently intends to pursue a DPhil. His academic interests include the significance of depictions of animals and half-animals on Roman Dionysiac sarcophagi, and he hopes to pursue research on the use of animals in the expression of power and imperialism in Roman public art. He is Secretary of the Animal Ethics Society for undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Oxford.

is a Registered General Nurse, and later trained as a Paediatric Nurse at the University of Leeds, gaining a Dip HE in Child Health Nursing in 1999. She qualified as a Specialist Practitioner in Health Visiting in 2002, after graduating from the University of Huddersfield with a first class BSc degree. In 2007, she was awarded an MA in Child Welfare and Protection with distinction from the University of Huddersfield. She is currently employed by Kirklees Primary Care Trust as a Health Visitor and Practice Teacher. Her article ‘Simple Febrile Convulsions: Evidence for Best Practice’ was published in the Journal of Child Health Care 4 (4) 149-153) in 2000. Her specialist interest, underpinned by experience in practice, is the relationship between animal cruelty, child abuse, and family violence. In 2007, she co-authored a paper and presented at the first international conference on Animal Abuse and Human Violence, hosted by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. With the broad aim of raising awareness within health and social care, she has presented literature review findings at local multi-agency workshops, and she is currently working with Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board in the development of training material for frontline staff. In 2007, she became a member of the Links Group, which pioneers an understanding of the interrelationship between child abuse, animal abuse and family violence, and is now the Centre’s official representative. Within the Group, she is contributing to the development of a survey-based study aimed at identifying the training needs of a broad range of professionals whose focus is either human or animal welfare.

is a PhD student at the University of Chester, writing a dissertation on ‘Cornucopian and Natalist Interpretation of Genesis 1:28 and Related Texts, and an Environmentalist Critique’. He is also a Module Tutor for the Open Theological College at the University of Gloucestershire. His research interest is in the treatment of the non-human in biblical exegesis. John has published ‘Christianity and Ecological Sustainability’ (a case-study) in Carolyn Roberts and Jane Roberts (eds) Greener By Degrees: Exploring Sustainability through Higher Education Curricula (Cheltenham: CeAL, 2007), and has contributed various papers to academic conferences, including: ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply?’ at the Population and Biodiversity: Too Many Stewards, Not Enough Creation? Redcliffe/JRI conference in January 2007; ‘The Use of Genesis in Debates about Environmental Stewardship Among Conservative Christians in the USA’, at Critical Perspectives on Religion and the Environment at Birmingham in 2006 (a joint conference of GEES and PRS, the Higher Education Academy subject centres covering Environment and Theology); ‘A History of Ecobible, 1955-2005′ at the Society for Biblical Literature International Conference at Edinburgh in 2006, and ‘Naming the Animals’ at the Society for Biblical Literature International Conference at Edinburgh in 2006.

is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, having gained a studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the project ‘Sharing Nature’s Bounty’. He has an MPhil in Politics from Oxford University, and a BA from York University. His research is in the field of political philosophy, and is concerned with the reasons we have for thinking of individuals, including animals, as equals. He is currently working on the organisation of a conference series, ‘The Foundations of Egalitarian Justice.’ His previous work, ‘Liberalism, Pluralism, Isaiah Berlin, and Truth,’ examined and criticised the argument that liberalism is justified by the plurality of values. He has published a review article on Bernard Williams’ In the Beginning was the Deed in The Oxonian Review of Books (Spring 2006, 5:2), and is a co-founder of the Oxford Movement for Animal Liberties.

is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology. In 2008, she graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia. She graduated with a doctorate in political science awarded for a dissertation titled Animal Visibility and Equality in Liberal Democratic States: A Study into Animal Ethics and the Nature of Bias in Animal Protection Regulation. Siobhan’s doctoral research focused on the structure of anti-animal cruelty statutes and the reasons why animal welfare laws only provide some animals with strong protection against harm. Her major dissertation findings have been published in Environmental Politics, 16 (1) 1-14. Siobhan is currently working on a book, based on her doctoral research, and is also actively involved in animal protection education. Since 2005, she has delivered annual lectures to veterinary science, animal research, agriculture studies, politics, and law students. The lectures seek to bring a scholarly understanding of the philosophical and political principles informing the animal protection movement to students who will work closely with animals in their professional lives. In 2007, Siobhan taught an adult education course entitled: ‘Animal rights – the politics of human/animal relations’, the first such course in Australia. In that same year, Siobhan participated in an animal law roundtable which brought together 12 animal law specialists for a two-day discussion of trends in animal law in the Australasian region. Siobhan has also contributed a chapter to Australia’s first animal law book: P. Sankoff and S. White (eds), Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue (Sydney: Federation Press, 2008). In 2008, Siobhan was invited to speak at the Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series, held annually at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

graduated from the University of Dundee, Scotland, with LLB (Hons) in 2000, and in 2005 she was awarded a LLM from Flinders University, South Australia. Lesley is a full-time Lecturer in Law in Adelaide, South Australia, as well as being a part-time doctoral student at Flinders University. Lesley’s doctoral thesis examines legal recognition of the human-animal bond and the status of animals as human property. Lesley is a founding member of the South Australian Inter-disciplinary Centre for Human-Animal Interaction Studies (ICHAIS), as well as being a peer-reviewer for the newly established Australian Animal Protection Law Journal. She has also contributed a chapter to the first Australasian book dedicated to Animal Law: Animal Law in Australasia (ed) Peter Sankoff & Steven White, published by Federation Press, due for release in August 2008.

is a Social Worker who lives and works in rural north-east Tasmania, Australia. He has spent most of his life in country communities, and animals have always been part and parcel of the wider Ryan household. In 1993 he graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work with First Class Honours degree from James Cook University in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. His honours thesis was entitled ‘The Widening Circle: Should Social Work Concern Itself with Nonhuman Animal Rights?’ In late 2006 he was awarded a PhD in social work by Edith Cowan University in Bunbury, Western Australia, with a doctoral thesis titled ‘Social Work, Independent Realities, and the Circle of Moral Considerability: Respect for Humans, Animals and the Natural World’, available for view at www.ecu.edu.au. Dr Ryan’s publications include ‘Social Work and Nonhuman Animal Rights’, Northern Radius,1(1), November 1993. Dr Ryan’s doctoral thesis represents a pioneering contribution to the discipline of social work, presenting a cogent argument for the inclusion of animals within its moral and conceptual frameworks, and articulating a revised social work code of ethics that has profound theoretical and practical consequences for social work and its practitioners.

teaches courses in Philosophy, Animal Ethics, and other subjects in Humanities, at Collège de l’Outaouais, in Gatineau, Canada. He graduated with a BA (First Class Honours) in Political Science from McGill University in 2004. He won a British Chevening scholarship to the University of Oxford gaining an MPhil in Political Theory in 2007. His MPhil dissertation examined the different modes of political communication used by Peter Singer and Martin Luther King, Jr. in delineating the boundaries of the moral community. He subsequently completed a research internship at the Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University in 2008, where he wrote an article on civil rights activist James Orange for The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia. He has co-authored an article ‘The Moral Debate Surrounding the Spanish Initiative to Grant Fundamental Rights to Great Apes’, which is to be published in the Gorilla Journal in the Spring of 2009. His main research interests are the moral status of non-human animals, and the social movements working towards the expansion of our sphere of moral consideration, including the animal rights movement. During his stint as a House of Commons researcher in the United Kingdom in 2004, he worked on behalf of Mrs Julie Morgan MP on an ultimately successful bill making it illegal to hunt with hounds. During his studies at Oxford, Carl co-founded the organisation called Oxford Movement for the Animal Liberties (OXMAL).

is a doctoral candidate currently finalising the first draft of her dissertation (begun at the University of Birmingham), which explores the basis for an animal ethic in the work of Paul Tillich, with particular reference to his Systematic Theology. She gained a first class degree in Theology at the University of Exeter, and wrote a final year dissertation on ‘Utilitarianism for animals, Kantianism for humans? A discussion of the moral status of non-human animals’, for which she was awarded the Dean’s Commendation. She also won another Dean’s Commendation and the Bounty Prize for academic excellence. She has written ‘How Animals View Us’ for the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Global Concern for Animals. She also has a practical interest in animal welfare, is a veterinary anaesthetist, and a member of the British Association of Pet Therapists. Her particular passion is working with giant breed dogs, where she is involved in all aspects of rescue work; from initial assessment, to fostering, rehabilitating and re-homing unwanted, neglected or abused dogs.

is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. A long-time animal rights advocate and social activist, he has been active in the Swedish animal rights movement since the mid-90s, and served as the President and Director of Animal Rights Sweden (Djurens Rätt), Sweden’s largest animal rights organization, from 2003 to 2007. His research interest centres on the reproduction of speciesist ideology in political discourses of the human-animal relationship, especially how animal ‘welfare’ and ‘protection’ policies often serve to legitimate continued nonhuman oppression. His first publication is: ‘Protecting the Animals? An Abolitionist Critique of Animal Welfarism and Green Ideology’, in: Ragnhild Sollund (ed) Global Harms: Ecological Crime and Speciesism (New York: Nova Science Publishers, forthcoming in 2008).

is a Juris Doctor student at the Georgetown University Law Centre. She studied Communication and Religion and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with distinction from Stanford University. She spent a semester in 2004 as a visiting student at the University of Oxford studying Animal Theology. Her research interests include legal protection for animals in agriculture, remedies for discrimination against ethical vegans and vegetarians in society, and the development of humane education programmes for school-aged youth. She is the 2008-2009 Student Vice-Chair for the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee, and a board member of the Georgetown Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. She has begun what she envisions to be a lifelong career of advocating for animals with a litigation internship at Compassion Over Killing, a non-profit organisation dedicated to ending and preventing cruelty to animals in agriculture.

is a full-time veterinary surgeon in Gloucestershire. He is also a first-year PhD student at the University of Bristol. His thesis is entitled ‘Should Quantity of Life Considerations be included in Animal Welfare Legislation?’ As well as speaking at academic conferences and work in the University, James is also a council member for the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons. He holds a BSc in Bioethics and a BVSc in veterinary medicine. His main concerns are death and ethical aspects of welfare science and law.