About the Authors

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jacob brandler is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Oxford and a postgraduate member of the Rothermere American Institute, researching the exclusive nature of American equality as a nexus in the thinking of White American polygenists and Black American nationalists that interacted with several paradigm shifts (the rise of materialism/empiricism, innate democracy, and the intensification of the slavery issue) in the period before the American Civil War, 1837 to 1861. In this research, the conception of animals features prominently as a specimen of the Other as well as in the blurring and reinforcing of the metaphysical boundary between human and animals in Western thought. Email: jacob.brandler@linacre.ox.ac.ukparag kumar deka is a doctoral fellow at the Department of English, Gauhati University, India. His research work is titled “Animality, Rationality, and the Modern State in J. M. Coetzee's Works.” His publications include the book chapter “Lives of Their Own: Animal Death and Animal Flesh in J. M. Coetzee's Writings,” in Critical Perspectives on Veganism, edited by Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His research interests include animal ethics, contemporary literature, and Assamese language and literature. Email: paragk.deka@gmail.comdaniel dombrowski is professor of philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of 20 scholarly books and more than 180 articles in philosophy, theology, and classics journals. Among his books are Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); and Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997). Email: ddombrow@seattleu.eduangela fernandez is a full professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Department of History at the University of Toronto. She is a fellow with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, a member of the Board of Advisors, and a director of Animal Justice Canada, as well as a member of the Brooks Animal Studies Academic Network (BASAN) with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights, Law and Policy. Professor Fernandez has been the book review editor (Americas) for Law and History Review since 2017 and a contributing reviewer to the legal history section of JOTWELL (The Journal of Things We Like [Lots]) since 2011. Her books include Pierson v. Post, the Hunt for the Fox: Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Her research interests include history, law, animal law, and ethics. Email: angela.fernandez@utoronto.camacarena montes franceschini holds a law degree from the University of Chile and master's degrees in animal law and European law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been awarded a research scholarship by the Catalan Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants and is currently working on her PhD dissertation on nonhuman animal personhood at Pompeu Fabra University's Law Department. She has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and is currently a Rights Research Fellow at the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School. She is a research assistant at the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the editorial committee of the Revista Chilena de Derecho Animal (Chilean Journal of Animal Law). She has written several articles on nonhuman animal personhood and animal law and a book titled Animal Law in Chile (Editorial Libromar, 2018). Email: macarena.montes@upf.edurivers gambrell, DPhil, is a fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. She holds a doctorate in history from Oxford and a master's in liberal studies from Duke University. She currently is coediting a book entitled Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, which will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2022. She is an honorary member of the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society. Research interests include: 20th-century history, political culture, sports history, and the American presidency. Email: rivers.gambrell@rai.ox.ac.ukmatteo gilebbi holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and is senior lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College. He is also the cofounder of the Anthropocene Group and a member of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at Dartmouth. His research focuses on the connections between literature, cinema, and philosophy, using theories from ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism, and animal studies. His work has been published in the edited volumes Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television (Intellect, 2021); Towards the River's Mouth by Gianni Celati. A Critical Edition (Lexington Books, 2018); Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (University of Virginia Press, 2018); The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015 (Bloomsbury, 2016); and Animals and the Posthuman in Italian Literature and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He recently translated two books of poetry by Ivano Ferrari, published in the single volume Slaughterhouse (Legas, 2019). Email: matteo.gilebbi@dartmouth.edukatie javanaud is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She has a DPhil in theology and religion from the University of Oxford and has taught courses on the ethics of eating and Indian philosophy at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. She has publications on environmental ethics in the journal Religions, on Buddhist ethics and philosophy in the Journal of Indian Philosophy and in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, and has previously published in the Journal of Animal Ethics. Research interests include: applied ethics, animal ethics, environmental ethics, and Buddhist metaphysics and ethics. Email: katiejavanaud@gmail.comadrian kreutz is a doctoral candidate in political theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and a junior dean at New College, University of Oxford. Adrian is also a teaching fellow at the University of Tübingen. He has published on a number of topics, including Buddhist logic and ethics, European left politics, and critical theory. His doctoral work explores issues of legitimacy for nonstate actors. Email: adrian.kreutz@politics.ox.ac.ukclair linzey, PhD, is the deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation. She is coeditor of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series and the Journal of Animal Ethics. She is the author of Developing Animal Theology (Routledge, 2021). Email: depdirector@oxfordanimalethics.comchien-hui li is professor of history at the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She has published widely in the areas of animal protection, political radicalism, and the relations between religion and science in 19th-century Britain. Her most recent book is Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Email: li.chien.hui@gmail.comrandall lockwood is a consultant on policy, response, and engagement to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where he served as senior vice president. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the Denver University Center for Human-Animal Interaction. Books include: Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence (Purdue University Press, 1998), Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty (HSUS Press, 2006), and Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech (Purdue University Press, 2014). Research interests include: bioethics, anthrozoology, animal behavior, and veterinary forensics. Email: randall.lockwood@aspca.orgdavid madden, KCMG, is vice chair of Compassion in World Farming and a distinguished friend of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He was formerly in HM Diplomatic Service being British High Commissioner to Cyprus 1994-1999, and British Ambassador to Greece 1999-2004. Email: david@madden.myzen.co.ukg. p. marcar is the Harold Turner Research Fellow at the Centre for Theology and Public Issues and a teaching fellow in the theology program at the University of Otago. Research interests include: theological ethics and anthropology, animal theology, and Christian mysticism. Email: gp.marcar@otago.ac.nzjustin marceau is a law professor and the Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, where he is also the faculty director of the animal law program. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the author of the book Beyond Cages (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and the coeditor with Lori Gruen of Carceral Logics (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Research interests include: animal law, social change, free speech, and criminal law. Email: jmarceau@law.du.edukimberly moore is senior tax counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, DC, and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is an expert on animal welfare laws in the United States, and her research interests include comparative animal law and understanding the connection between human and animal rights. She is the author of the forthcoming book The Case for the Legal Protection of Animals. Email: Kimberly.moore@pillsburylaw.comviolette pouillard is a researcher for the National French Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, LARHRA, UMR 5190) and a visiting professor at Ghent University. She has published articles and a monograph on the history of zoos (Histoire des zoos par les animaux [A History of Zoos via Animals], Champ Vallon, 2019). Her current research concerns the history of (post)colonial conservation policies and practices in Central Africa (Congo, Uganda). Email: Violette.POUILLARD@msh-lse.frper-anders svärd is a political scientist and a senior lecturer at the School of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden. He is a cofounder and section editor of the open-access journal Politics and Animals and an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Formerly the president and director of Animal Rights Sweden, he takes a special interest in critical animal studies and the history and politics of animal welfare. Email: per-anders.svard@oru.se