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Animal Studies
Interviews with scholars of Animal Studies about their new books.
March 9, 2026
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek explores the intricate …
March 5, 2026
The Vet at the End of the Earth
The role of a resident vet in the remote islands of the Falklands, St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha encompasses many wonderful complexities…
February 22, 2026
Spoiled
Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the populat…
February 21, 2026
Food, Justice, and Animals
How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. But maybe we should reject this assumptio…
February 19, 2026
No Option But Sabotage
An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to …
February 16, 2026
What Animals Teach Us about Families
Reading the Bible and rabbinic literature to reimagine the bonds between animals. Moving beyond debates about the ethics of animal consumption to focu…
February 13, 2026
Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland
In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator f…
February 9, 2026
Squirrel
Squirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our…
February 8, 2026
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History
A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? “How many creatures walking on this earth / Have th…
February 4, 2026
Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing
Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing: Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 2024)…
January 19, 2026
Hawking Women
Fantastic and informative talk with Sara Petrosillo of the University of Evansville about her new book, Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control i…
January 18, 2026
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without…
January 13, 2026
Feminism in the Wild
In Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior (MIT Press, 2025), Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how sci…
January 11, 2026
The Tame and the Wild
In The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press, 2024), Dr. Marcy Norton offers a dramatic new interpretation of the…
January 9, 2026
Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700 (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) by Dr. Danielle Alesi examines how t…
January 1, 2026
Free Agents
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As w…
December 16, 2025
The Genius Bat
With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats …
December 14, 2025
Cat Tales
For as long as cats have coexisted with humans, they have been feared, revered and respected. They appear as dynamic hunters in Palaeolithic carvings …
December 11, 2025
Living Night
When the sun sets, things start to get interesting among wild animals. Wherever we live, whether in the city or suburbs or country, darkness conjures …
December 1, 2025
Wilderness, Morality, and Value
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Lexington Books, …