Australasian Animal Studies Association
Leane, Professor Elizabeth

Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities

School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania

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Literature; Animal Studies; Antarctic Studies

Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

University of Technology Sydney

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Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings

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Celermajer, Danielle. Professor

Deputy Director (Academic) Sydney Environment Institute

University of Sydney

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Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities

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Sax, Dr Boria

Senior Lecturer

Mercy University
Jones, Dr Erin

Independent scholar


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Taylor, Nik Professor

Human Services Graduate Research Coordinator

University of Canterbury

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Sociology of human-animal relations

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Pyke, Dr Susan

Teacher/Researcher

University of Melbourne

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Sue teaches at the University of Melbourne, writes in a range of genres and also provides editorial and research services.

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Archer-Lean, Dr Clare

Senior Lecturer, English Literature

University of the Sunshine Coast

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Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice

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Chrulew, Dr Matthew

Senior Research Fellow

Writing and Cultural Studies, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan

DECRA Fellow, Anthropology

Australian National University

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Stefanou, Tina

PhD candidate in Fine Arts

Victoria College of The Arts, University of Melbourne

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Tiffany, Dr Carrie

Independent Scholar


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Associate Professor in Creative Arts

University of Southern Queensland
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Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation

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Soar, Professor Jeffrey

Chair in Human-Centred Technology

University of Southern Queensland

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Milburn, Dr Josh

Lecturer in Political Philosophy and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Loughborough University

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Potts, Annie. Professor

Professor of Critical Animal Studies and Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies

University of Canterbury

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Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Senior Lecturer in Japanese

University of Queensland
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Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships

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Hill, Dr Kris

PhD Candidate

University of Exeter
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Rodan, A/Professor Debbie

Honorary Associate Professor in Media & Cultural Studies

Edith Cowan University

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My current research focus on public attitudes to animal welfare identifies and maps recent shifts in the Australian imaginary and public sphere around human and animal relations.

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Wadiwel, Associate Professor Dinesh

Associate Professor in Human Rights and Socio-legal Studies

University of Sydney

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Sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies.

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Schlagloth, Dr Rolf

Research Program Leader

CQ University

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Rolf Schlagloth is koala researchers and educator who believes in the power of the koala as a flagship species.

Lyons, Dr Simone

Sessional Academic

The University of Queensland

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Research interests include narrative representations of dogs and human–dog relations

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Fijn, Dr Natasha

Research Fellow

Australian National University
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Animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.

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Lecturer

The University of the South Pacific

Lecturer in Law
School of Business and Law

CQUniversity Australia
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Australia’s animal protection regime.
The protection of domesticated animals as a socio-legal problem.

Browne, Dr Josephine

Adjunct (ECR)

Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research
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Sociology, literature and fiction in relation to other animals, with particular interest in discourse analysis, political ideologies, violence and grief

Fraser, A/Prof Heather

Course Coordinator of Master of Social Work Program

Queensland University of Technology

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Heather Fraser is a critical social worker who uses visual methods and narrative research in the areas of violence and abuse (humans and animals), oppression and privilege, community organising and service delivery.

I have many roles: academic, student, research assistant, editor, dog-human, ecofeminist

associated with: Australian National University, University of Canberra, University of Tasmania

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My goal is to rewrite destructive narratives around humanity's relationship to the more-than-human world.

Lecturer, Environmental Science

School of Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University

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Professor of History

Valdosta State University

Senior Lecturer

RMIT University
O’Sullivan, Dr Siobhan

Senior Lecturer

University of New South Wales

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Animal welfare policy; Environmental ethics. Siobhan presents a regular podcast, Knowing Animals, on all things animal and ethics related.

Lecturer

Swinburne University of Technology

Tracy Young
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Connections and disjunctions of child/animal relations; animals and early childhood education; ecological justice

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Professor of Law

Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Animal welfare regulation; Free range and higher animal welfare labelling; the politics, ethics and regulation of food.

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Adjunct Lecturer

Southern Cross University
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The rights of nature; decolonizing non-human – human interactions.

Senior Researcher, School of Social & Policy Studies

Flinders University

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Positive training, operant conditioning for companion, zoo, farm animals; animals and public health; impact and human control/management of introduced species; attitudes toward and policies on urban animals.

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Laird, Dr Tessa

Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies

University of Melbourne (VCA, School of Art)
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The cultural history of bats; animal art theory and criticism (colour theory, human-animal relations, theory for the Anthropocene, decolonisation); animal language; plant sentience; more-than-human perception

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White, Dr Steven

Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School

Griffith University
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Animal protection ethics, law and policy.
Environmental law with a focus on wild animal protection.
Regulatory studies and protection of animals.

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Independent researcher


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Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics

Arcari, Dr Paula

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Edge Hill University, UK
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Mundane and normalised practices involving animals and the temporal and spatial sites in which they occur.

van Dooren, Thom. A/Professor

Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow

University of Sydney

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Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)

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Phillips, Dr Perdita

Independent Scholar


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Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics

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Probyn-Rapsey, Professor Fiona
School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong

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Fiona’s research connects feminist critical race studies and Animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race and species intersect.

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Doctoral Student

Lund University

Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development

Deakin University

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Cattle trafficking and cattle industries in India; livestock industries; biopower; animals and urbanisms/urban planning

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Independent Scholar


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Animal Ethics; Animal and environmental protection

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry

University of Wollongong
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Linguistics research -
counter discourses of meat consumption and factory farming. The conflation of individual and species interests of non-human animals in environmental/ ecological discourses

Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies

Monash University
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Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema

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Deputy Head of School, School of Arts

University of New England, NSW
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Research interests include the perceptions of animals in nineteenth-century Britain, and human and animal studies as a discipline

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