The Animals & Society Institute (ASI) is an American non-profitscholarly organization that works to expand knowledge about human-animal relationships, develop knowledge and resources in the field of human-animal studies (HAS), and create resources to address the relationship between animal cruelty and other forms of violence.[1]
The ASI is staffed by Ivy Collier (Executive Director), Lisa Lunghofer (Human-Animal Relationships Program Director), Gala Argent (Human-Animal Studies Program Director) and Daniel Earle (managing director).[2] It has a board made up of John Thompson (chair), Anne Elizabeth Hirky (vice chair), Kenneth Shapiro (president and secretary), Petra Pepellashi (treasurer), Beatrice Friedlander, Kristin Stewart, Elan Abrell, and Gail Luciani.[3]
The Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science is a quarterly journal which is published by Taylor & Francis with sponsorship from the ASI. It has been publishing since 1999, and is presently edited by Cynthia Bennett.
Society & Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies is a peer reviewed bi-monthly journal co-published by Brill with sponsorship from the ASI. It has been publishing since 1993, and its founding editor is Kenneth Shapiro. It is currently edited by Susan McHugh, with managing editors Robert McKay (humanities), Robert Mitchell (quantitative natural and social science), Zoei Sutton (qualitative social science), and Drew Winter ("political animals"). Ralph Acampora, Sally Borrell, Pete Porter, Michelle Szydlowski, and Corey Wrenn are review editors.[4]
Special issues that the journal has published include:
1996 (4:2): Consumer Psychology
1997 (5:3): Animal Cruelty
1998 (6:2): Geography
1999 (7:2): Children
2000 (8:3): Religion
2001 (9:3): Representation
2005 (13:1): Ways of Seeing
2006 (14:1): Language
2011 (19:4): Proceeding of Minding Animals Conference
2012 (20:2): ASI Fellowship
2013 (21:2): Archaeology
2013 (21:5): Religious Slaughter
2014 (22:1): Animals in Place
2019 (27:7) The Silent Majority: Invertebrates in Human Animal Studies
Sloth: A Journal of Emerging Voices in Human-Animal Studies is a bi-annual peer-reviewed journal for work by current and recent undergraduates that has been published by the ASI since 2015. Its current editor is the philosopher Joel MacClellan.
The HAS Book Series is published by Brill, and was one of the first academic book series focused on animal studies.[5] It is edited by Kenneth Shapiro, Thomas Aiello, and Gala Argent, with an editorial board made up of Ralph Acampora, Clifton Flynn, Hilda Kean, Randy Malamud, Gail Melson, Leslie Irvine, and Richie Nimmo.[6] It publishes both monographs and edited collections. Titles include:
Lyle Munro, Confronting Cruelty: Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. 2005
Ann Herda-Rapp and Theresa L. Goedek (eds.), Mad About Wildlife: Looking at Social Conflict Over Wildlife . 2005
Lisa Kemmerer, In Search of Consistency: Ethics, Animas, and the Minimize Harm Maxim. 2006
Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong (eds.), Knowing Animals. 2007
Sandra Swart and Lance van Sittert (eds.), Canis Africanis: A Dog History of South Africa. 2008
Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini (eds.), Animal Encounters. 2009
Terry Caesar, Speaking of Animals: Essays on Dogs and Others. 2009
Sarah E. McFarland and Ryan Hediger (eds.), Animals and Agency. 2010
Carol Freeman, Paper Tiger: A Visual History of the Thylacine. 2010
John Knight, Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops are Managed for Tourism in Japan. 2011
Nik Taylor and Tania Signal (eds.), Theorizing Animals: Rethinking Humanimal Relations. 2011
Rob Boddice, Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments. 2011
Abel A. Alves, The Animals of Spain: An Introduction to Imperial Perceptions and Human Interaction with Other Animals, 1492-1826. 2011
Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull (eds.), Crossing Boundaries. 2012
Ryan Hediger, Animals and War. 2012
Nik Taylor and Lindsay Hamilton, Animals at Work. 2013
'Gala Argent and Jeannette Vaught (eds.), The Relational Horse: How Frameworks of Communication, Care, Politics and Power Reveal and Conceal Equine Selves, 2022
Sarah Czerny, Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks, 2022
Julien Dugnoille and Elizabeth Vander Meer (eds.), Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification, 2022
Maggie Bolton and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers (eds.), Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic, 2023
Ellis, C.; McKay, R.; O'Sullivan, S.; Twine, R.; Weller, K. (2012). "The Animals & Society Institute Fellowship: Catalyzing work in human-animal studies". Society and Animals. 20 (2): 117–122. doi:10.1163/156853012X631333.
