About the Authors

FAITH BJALOBOK is a professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and Waynesburg University. Bjalobok is the founder of the Fluffyjean Jean Fund for Felines and president of Washington County Animal Abuse Relief. She also runs a sanctuary farm. Research interests include: bioethics, Native American philosophy, environmental ethics, and animal rights. Email: Bjalobo273@duq.edu.MAŠA BLAZNIK holds a bachelor of science degree in psychology from the Open University, United Kingdom, and is the founder and director of the Empathy-Based Society Institute. She is the author of “Training Young Killers: How Butcher Education Might Be Damaging Young People” (Journal of Animal Ethics, 2018) and coauthored the chapter “Denied Relationship: Moral Stress in the Vocational Killing of Non-Human Animals” (in Animals and Business Ethics, Palgrave, 2022). Maša works in the fields of critical animal studies and empathy research. Email: masa.blaznik@gmail.com.JANE M. CASTELINE is a research administrator at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her photography explores the nuances and unique qualities of the natural, human, and built environment through photography. Her work has been featured in juried and nonjuried exhibitions since 2014. Her current project, “Mushrooms in Raleigh,” documents the multitude of fungi species located in and around Raleigh, North Carolina, also seeking to capture the beauty that flourishes from the naturally decaying environment. She is currently developing a documentary photography series on the journey of homeless Turkish dogs from abandonment to rescue to adoption. Email: jmc8449@gmail.com.MARK CAUSEY, PhD, is a senior lecturer in philosophy, religion, and liberal studies at Georgia College and State University and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He regularly teaches undergraduate courses on food, environmental, and animal ethics. Email: mark.causey@gcsu.edu.TOMAŽ GRUŠOVNIK, PhD (philosophy), is an associate professor and senior research fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, and at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Maribor. He served as president of the Slovenian Philosophical Society from 2018 to 2020 and is editor-in-chief of the society's journal, Anthropos. Grušovnik has been a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of New Mexico and a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, Tampere University, the University of Haifa, and the University of Namibia. He has coedited Borders and Debordering (Lexington, 2018) and Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial (Lexington, 2020) and works primarily in the fields of critical animal studies and philosophy of education. Email: tomaz.grusovnik@pef.upr.si.REBECCA 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.com.SHANNON JOHNSTONE is a tenured professor at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is also a PhD candidate in human-animal studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Her photographic work deals with themes that reclaim what has been discarded and make visible that which is hidden. Her project “Landfill Dogs” has been featured nationally and internationally and was most notably on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (2013) and CNN.com (2014). Her recent project “Stardust and Ashes” was a Critical Mass Finalist (2017). Her newest work, “Roadside Zoo,” won an honorable mention in the International Photography Awards (2021), and one photograph from this series was a finalist in the 2023 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition. Email: m.shannon.johnstone@gmail.com.CAROL KLINE is a professor and director of the Hospitality and Tourism Management Program at Appalachian State University. Books include: Tourism, Heritage and Commodification of Non-Human Animals: A Post-Humanist Reflection (CABI, 2023) and Emerging Voices for Animals in Tourism (CABI, 2024). Selected publications are featured in Journal of Travel Research, Ecological Economics, and Tourism Recreation Research. Research interests include: animal ethics, animals in tourism, animal advocacy, animal careers. Email: klinecs@appstate.edu.CHIEN-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 history, 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.com.RANDY MALAMUD is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University. Books include: Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998); Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Palgrave, 2003); The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (Intellect, 2018); and CRASH! Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields (Bloomsbury, 2024). Research interests include: anthrozoology and ecocriticism, cultural studies, travel, and film. Email: rmalamud@gsu.edu.ANTONI MIKOCKI is reading for the BPhil in philosophy at University of Oxford. He was the Drue Heinz Scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, in 2022–2023. Research interests include: animal ethics, international political theory, and neo-republicanism. Email: antoni.mikocki@gmail.com.DUSTIN SIGSBEE is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include normative ethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics, with a focus on the ethics of partiality, special relationships, and environmental justice. Email: dsigsbee@email.sc.edu.MICHAEL SWISTARA is a litigation fellow at the Animal Legal Defense Fund and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Articles include: “Mutual Liberation: The Use and Abuse of Nonhuman Animals by the Carceral State and the Intersectionality of Oppression” (University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review, 2022); “What Comes After Defund: Lessons from Police and Prison Abolition for the Animal Protection Movement” (Animal Law Review, 2022); and “A Fare Share: A Proposed Solution to Address the Racial Disparity in Access to Public Transportation Funding in America” (Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 2021). Research interests include: intersectional issues of justice, food system change, and animal law. Email: michael.swistara@gmail.com.NORA WARD lectures in philosophy in the School of History and Philosophy in the University of Galway. She has a forthcoming coauthored book with Justin Simpson on the subject of attention and animal ethics contracted with Lexington, and recent publications include work on Irish thinker John Moriarty, deep ecology, environmental field philosophy, and the ethics of ecology and conservation. Research interests include: environmental ethics, posthumanism, animal ethics, ecofeminism. Email: nora.ward@universityofgalway.ie.IAN WIEBE is an undergraduate at Providence University College and Theological Seminary, Manitoba, Canada. Having completed a certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages, he is currently pursuing a bachelor of arts in the humanities, with a focus on English literature and philosophy. Research interests include: literary analysis, the intersection of philosophy and literature, film analysis, creative writing. Email: ianjwiebe@gmail.com.

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