Faculty

Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology, a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and Founder/Director of the Michigan State University’s interdisciplinary graduate specialization in Animal Studies:  Humanities & Social Science Perspectives (http://animalstudies.msu.edu). Using a visual studies framework, she studies the cultural representations of humans and other animals and the links between culture and nature.  She has published more than 30 articles and book chapters and seven books including:

Looking at Animals in Human History, A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity,The Animals Reader, Essentials of Social Research, and A Reader in Environmental Values.

Her book series, A Cultural History of Animals, received a Choice Award as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008.

In addition to serving as a General Editor for the multi-volume Cultural History of Animals, she also edits the forthcoming Cultural History of the Human Body, A Cultural History of Women and the Encyclopedia of Earth’s sections on Animals & Society and Environmental Philosophy.  She is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in the World.

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websites: http://animalstudies.msu.edu

6G Berkey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 355-6638
lkalof@msu.edu