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Author Biographies

Annie Bernatchez is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. As a political sociologist in the field of social movement and critical studies, her research interest focuses on animal justice activism in Canada. The central point of interest of her thesis is the structural and emotional dimensions of contentious politics.

Ermanno Castanò teaches philosophy and is the author of (2018) Agamben e l’animale. La politica dalla norma all’eccezione (Agamben and the Animal. Politics from the Norm to the Exception) and (2011) Ecologia e potere. Un saggio su Murray Bookchin (Ecology and Power. An Essay on Murray Bookchin).

Iana Fishova holds a Master degree in English and American Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. She organizes a project “Vegan Studies and Critical Animal Studies” where she translates and writes articles for Russian-speaking readers.

Lynne Goldsmith is a counselor and award-winning author. Her first poetry collection, Secondary Cicatrices, won seven honors. Two of her three children’s picture books won honors. Her new poetry collection, now out, is By Light and Hidden Matter. She works as a licensed and certified therapist/counselor and recently had two photos chosen as “Favorites” in an international photography competition.

Johannes Kögel is a philosopher and sociologist who works as a research associate at the Institute of Ethics, History, and Theory of Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research interests comprise migration and democracy studies, STS and medical sociology. Currently he works on a project about xenotransplantation.

Nathan Poirier is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Michigan State University with specializations in Animal Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies, and previous master’s degrees in mathematics and anthrozoology. He also is co-director for Students for Critical Animal Studies, and Director of Publicity for the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. Nathan is currently

writing a dissertation that investigates links between proponents of "in vitro meat” and animal agribusiness.

Norman George Riley is a year two Ph.D. researcher at the University of Essex, UK whose research focusses on attitudes towards and barriers to veganism within a working-class community in the United Kingdom.