Knowing Animals: Histories, Strategies and Frontiers in Human/Animal Relations

Press release

This new initiative explores how animals are central to human understandings and experiences of the world and to the development of concepts and beliefs about what it means to be human.

Steering Committee:

Jane Desmond (chair, Anthropology)
Chip Burkhardt (History)
Amy Fischer (ACES)
Eric Freyfogle (Law)
Paul Garber (Anthropology)
Laurie Hogin (Art & Design)
Janice Juraska (Psychology)
Mark Mitchell (Veterinary Medicine)
Jennifer Monson (Dance)
Robert Pahre (Political Science)
Gene Robinson (Entomology)
Spencer Schaffner (English)
Eleonora Stoppino (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese)
Deke Weaver (Art & Design)

Cosponsored by: College of LAS, Departments of Animal Sciences and Anthropology, Institute for Genomic Biology, Neuroscience Program