In response to the growing concern for animals that is sweeping both academia and applied settings, Michigan State University has implemented several programs and courses in the area of human-animal relationships in order to become a leader in the emerging field of animal studies.
New Graduate Specialization
Animal Studies: Social Science & Humanities Perspectives
The graduate specialization in Animal Studies: Social Science & Humanities Perspectives is designed for doctoral and master's students to explore the historical and social dimensions of the human-animal relationship from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students participating in the specialization program:
- Gain basic knowledge in the relationships between humans and other animals;
- Develop their understanding of how humans and other animals are linked together in a vulnerable biosphere;
- Examine the legal, philosophical and historical perspectives on the human-animal relationship;
- Apply issues of the human-animal relationship to their home disciplines.
This specialization is administered by the College of Social Science, and the Department of Sociology is the primary administrative unit.
Learn more about the graduate specialization.
We are pleased to announce the
Animals & Society Institute 2008 Research in Residence Fellows
Hosted by Michigan State University
Welcome Remarks from Dean Marietta Baba
The Animals & Society Institute Fellows and MSU Hosts at the
2008 first week presentations
Karla Armbruster, Associate Professor, English Department, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, (Walking with Wildness: Dogs and What They Can Teach Us About Living on an Endangered Earth)
Fellow Biography
Jonathan Clark, JD, Ph.D. Student, Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (Political Physiology: The Case of Enviropig)
Fellow Biography
David Dillard-Wright, Instructor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Aiken, South Carolina (Xenotransplantation and Black Market Organs: Shared Mortality as a Basis for Concern)
Fellow Biography
Colter Ellis, Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO (The Ranching Lifestyle: Producing Cattle, Gender, and the Environment)
Fellow Biography
Amy J. Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Media Representations of the 2007 "Pet" Food Recall: The Attribution and Construction of Victimhood and Corporate Responsibility)
Fellow Biography
Francis Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Management, Collegium of Behavioral Science, Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL. (Organizing and Managing Social Change for Companion Animals: One County's Story)
Fellow Biography
Lisa Kane, JD, Boulder, CO (Liberating Elephants: Accelerating the Assimilation of Science into Policies Affecting Elephants in Captivity)
Fellow Biography
