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Qualitative Sociology Review
2007
Volume III Issue 1
Contributors
Leslie Irvine is Associate Professor
of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her courses
include Animals and Society, Social Psychology, and Sociological
Theory. She is the author of If You Tame Me: Understanding our
Connection with Animals (2004; Temple University Press) and Codependent
Forevermore: The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Group (1999;
University of Chicago Press). Her current research examines the
impact of disasters on animals.
Contact: irvinel@colorado.edu
Pru Hobson-West is a
postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Science and
Society at the University of Nottingham. She holds an MA in politics
from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from Nottingham. Her PhD
thesis looked at organised parental resistance to UK childhood
vaccination policy. In 2006, Pru spend one semester as a visiting
fellow at Harvard University. Funded through a Wellcome Trust
Fellowship in Biomedical Ethics, Pru is currently investigating the
controversy over the use of animals in laboratory science. Her
research interests include human-animal relations, public
understanding of science, risk and social movements.
Contact: Pru.Hobson-West@nottingham.ac.uk
Adrian Franklin (Professor) trained
as an anthropologist in the UK, and has held Professorial positions
at the University of Bristol, UK and the University of Oslo
(Norway). He is best known for his work on the relationships between
humans and the natural world, especially with animals. His books
include Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia;
Animals and Modern Cultures, Nature and Social Theory and Tourism.
He is currently working on two new books: City Life and A
Culture of Fire: Eucalypts, Australians, Fire. Adrian Franklin's
work has focused on social and cultural change in modernity, and
this includes work on city life, the sociology of nature and
environments, our relationships with animals, and the orderings of
travel, mobility and tourism.
Contact: Adrian.franklin@utas.edu.au
Michael Emmison (PhD) is Reader in
Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland,
Australia. His research interests are primarily in the field of
language and interaction and he is currently examining the impact of
technology (telephone, email and online web counselling) on troubles
telling on a national children's helpline. He is the co-author of Accounting
for Tastes (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Researching
the Visual (Sage, 2000) and co-editor of Calling for Help:
language and social interaction in telephone helplines
(Benjamins 2005).
Contact: m.emmison@uq.edu.au
Donna Haraway is a Professor in the
History of Consciousness Department at the University of California
at Santa Cruz, where she teaches feminist theory, science studies,
and animal studies. Her publications include Primate Visions:
Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989);
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
(1991); Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan© Meets
OncoMouse™ (1997); The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs,
People, and Significant Otherness (2003); and When Species
Meet (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2007).
Contact: haraway@ucsc.edu
Max Travers (PhD) is a Lecturer in
sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of
Tasmania. He qualified as a solicitor before completing a doctorate
at the University of Manchester examining legal practice from an
ethnomethodological perspective. His publications include The
Reality of Law (1997), The British Immigration Courts
(1999), Qualitative Research Through Case Studies (2001), An
Introduction to Law and Social Theory (edited with Reza Banakar,
2002) and The New Bureaucracy: Quality Assurance and Its Critics
(2007).
Contact: max.travers@utas.edu.au
Nicola Taylor (PhD) is currently a
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Central Queensland University. She
has published a number of articles concerning human-animal
interaction, domestic violence and harm to companion animals and has
been highlighting the importance of studying these areas to
sociologists, policy makers and practitioners alike since 1997. She
is an Honorary member of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal
Studies, the Executive Director of the Centre for Animal Liberation
Affairs and sits on the editorial board of Anthrozoos. She also acts
as reviewer for a number of international journals dedicated to
human-animal studies such as Society & Animals and the Animal
Liberation Philosophy & Policy Journal.
Contact: n.taylor@cqu.edu.au
Colin Jerolmack is a PhD candidate
in sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
He has published in Sociological Theory, Sociological Forum, and
Society and Animals; and his interests include qualitative methods,
community and urban studies, social psychology, and human-animal
relations. His dissertation (in progress) is a comparative
ethnography that seeks to contribute to theorizing about the roles
of animals in place, politics, problems, public health, community,
and identity.
Contact: cjerolmack@gc.cuny.edu
Gennifer Furst (PhD) received her
doctorate in criminal justice from CUNY Graduate Center (NYC) and is
an assistant professor in the sociology department of William
Paterson University (NJ). She conducted the first national survey of
prison-based animal programs. In addition to issues of punishment
and corrections, her research interests include capital punishment,
drugs and crime, and race and the administration of justice.
Contact: furstg@wpunj.edu
Krzysztof T. Konecki is a Professor
of Sociology, chair of Organizational and Management Sociology
Department, Lodz University, Poland. His major research areas are:
qualitative sociology, grounded theory, symbolic interactionism,
visual sociology, sociology of management and organization,
sociology of work, organizational symbolism, Japanese culture and
management, human-non-human-animals relationships.
Contact: konecki@uni.lodz.pl
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