About the Authors

MARIS BECK is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Science, School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney in Australia. She has professional experience as a corporate consultant and company director. Her qualifications include a master's in international politics (University of Melbourne), awarded with dean's honors; a diploma of government investigations (Australian Security Academy); and the foundations of directorship (Australian Institute of Company Directors). Research interests include: business-based approaches to animal studies and racehorse welfare. Email: maris.beck@sydney.edu.auLAUREN BESTWICK recently gained her BA in history from Worcester College, University of Oxford. She is an alumnus of the Oxford University Society for Animal Ethics. Research interests include: early modern Britain and Europe. Email: lbestwick8001@gmail.comCINI BRETZLAFF-HOLSTEIN is a professor of social work and director of the online BSW program at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois, and a licensed social worker in the state of Illinois. Bretzlaff-Holstein is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Her publications include “The Case for Humane Education in Social Work Education” in Social Work Education and a chapter in Humane Education in Higher Education (WCY Humane Press, 2020). Research interests include: food justice, environmental and ecological justice, social work education and humane education, the human-animal bond in social work, and vegan studies. Email: Cini.Bretzlaff-Holstein@trnty.eduWOLF GORDON CLIFTON is the executive director of Animal People, Inc. He received an MS in geological sciences from Ohio University (2021), an MA in museology from the University of Washington (2015), and a BA (Hons) in religious studies from Vanderbilt University (2013). In fall 2023 he began a PhD program in theology and ethics at the Graduate Theological Union. Much of his recent work has focused on animal welfare in international policy. He has represented Animal People as a special consultant to the UN Economic and Social Council, observer to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and in civil society coalitions including the World Federation for Animals, Animal Issues Thematic Cluster, and Faith & Biodiversity UN Coordination Group. Research interests include: animal ethics, environmental ethics, religion and science, comparative religion, ecotheology, paleontology, and conservation paleobiology. Email: wolf@animalpeopleforum.orgKERI CRONIN is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University. She is the author of Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914 (Penn State University Press, 2018) and Manufacturing National Park Nature (UBC Press, 2011) and coeditor (with Kirsty Robertson) of Imaging Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011). Her current research focuses on the animal history of the Niagara region of Canada. Email: keri.cronin@brocku.caCLIFTON P. FLYNN is provost (retired), senior vice chancellor emeritus, and distinguished professor emeritus of sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the author of Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis (Lantern Books, 2012). His research has focused on animal abuse and its relation to family violence. Email: cpflynn3@gmail.comTHILO HAGENDORFF is associate member of the Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” at the University of Tuebingen and lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Research interests include: animal ethics, ethics of technology, and machine learning. Email: thilo.hagendorff@uni-tuebingen.deALASTAIR HARDEN teaches classics at Magdalen College School, Oxford. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and is a consultant editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics. He cofounded the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society, and he is the author of Animals in the Classical World: Ethical Perspectives from Greek and Roman Texts in the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (2013). Research interests include: Greek and Roman literature, classical art, and ancient history. Email: alastair.harden@outlook.comCHRISTINA HOENIG, formerly associate professor in classics at the University of Pittsburgh, published her monograph Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition in 2018. She specializes in the Greek and Roman Platonic traditions. Email: cmh159@pitt.eduB. V. E. HYDE is a researcher in philosophy at Durham University specializing in metaresearch, philosophy of religion, and contemporary ethics. He is currently working with the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy (CSDLP), and Durham Research Methods Centre (DRMC). Email: b.v.e.hyde@outlook.comREBECCA JENKINS is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She holds an LLB degree in law from Trinity College Dublin and an LLM in animal law from Lewis & Clark Law School. She has contributed chapters to Animals, Food and Tourism (Routledge, 2019) and Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism (Routledge, 2018) and is currently coauthoring the textbook Aquatic Animal Law, Policy & Science. Research interests include: animal law and policy, food law, labor law, animal ethics, and intersectional approaches to nonhuman animal rights and aquatic animals. Email: beckyjenkinsirl@gmail.comLAURA LANGONE, PhD University of Cambridge (UK), is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Verona (Italy). She has widely published on 19th-century continental philosophy, especially on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Her articles have appeared in worldwide renowned journals such as History of Philosophy Quarterly and Journal of European Studies. Recently, she has published a book exploring Nietzsche's conception of freedom, Nietzsche: filosofo della libertà (ETS, 2019). Her research interests include: 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, environmental ethics, and animal ethics. Email: laura.langone@univr.itRANDY MALAMUD is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He works in the areas of ecocriticism, cultural studies, modern literature, travel studies, and film. He is the author of Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998), Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Palgrave McMillan, 2003), and Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers (Reaktion Books,1998). Email: rmalamud@gsu.eduNICO MÜLLER is a philosopher, postdoctoral researcher in ethics at the University of Basel, and member of the Transversal Taskforce Ethics of the NCCR Evolving Language of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Recent work includes the book Kantianism for Animals: A Radical Kantian Animal Ethic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the journal articles “Korsgaard on Duties Towards Animals: Two Difficulties” (Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism), “From Here to Utopia: Theories of Change in Nonideal Animal Ethics” (Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics), and “Innocentism: Preferring the Innocent over the Culpable” (Journal of Value Inquiry). He is also the cofounder and member of the organizing team of a small nonprofit association, Animal Rights Switzerland. Email: nicodario.mueller@unibas.chAARON NEBER is a PhD candidate in philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. His work has appeared in Public Seminar and Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. Research interests include: ecofeminist, poststructuralist and queer critiques of anthropocentrism; animality and ontology; and animal ethics. Email: nebea360@newschool.eduKURT REMELE is professor emeritus of ethics and Catholic social teaching in the Department of Catholic Theology at the University of Graz, Austria, and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Books include: Die Würde des Tieres ist unantastbar [The Dignity of the Animal Is Inviolable] (Butzon & Bercker, 2016); “Es geht uns allen besser, wenn es allen besser geht” Die ethische Wiederentdeckung des Gemeinwohls [“We All Do Better When We All Do Better” The Ethical Rediscovery of the Common Good] (Grünewald, 2021). Email: kurt.remele@uni-graz.atPHILIP J. SAMPSON, PhD, is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a consultant editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics. Recent publications include: Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and “Noah, Jesus and Ecology—Sustaining and Restoring the Environment” in Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care (CSP Cambridge, 2021). Research interests include: animal theology and discourses of change. Email: sampsons@dsl.pipex.comJOAN E. SCHAFFNER, JD, is an associate professor of law at The George Washington University Law School. Joan is the author of Introduction to Animals and the Law and coauthor and editor of A Lawyer's Guide to Dangerous Dog Issues and Litigating Animal Law Disputes: A Complete Guide for Lawyers. Ze is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has received the Association of American Law School's Excellence in Animal Law Award, and the American Bar Association, Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section's Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award. Email: jschaf@law.gwu.eduFELIX TAYLOR completed a DPhil in English at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, in 2021, and is currently the library assistant at The Queen's College, Oxford. His research interests include: British mythology and folklore, occultism, and modern interpretations of medieval themes. He is currently writing a book on the Welsh horror writer and mystic Arthur Machen. He was president of the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society from 2019–2020. Email: felix.taylor@queens.ox.ac.ukNANCY M. WILLIAMS is an associate professor of philosophy at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She has published several academic articles on animal ethics, including an ethics of care examination of “humane” meat, and the link between affected ignorance and animal suffering. Her research interests include feminist philosophy and ethical theory with particular focus on animal protectionism and food ethics. Email: williamsnm@wofford.edu

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