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What’s Wrong with “Carnism”?

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 4, 2016September 9, 2018

Many of my readers have asked over recent years why I do not support the rhetoric of "carnism." The short answer is that it is speciesist. In an interview with ARZone, Dr. Melanie Joy discusses her theoryContinue reading

Essays

The White Privilege in Vegan Moral Superiority

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 3, 2016January 26, 2019

I usually love it when I'm wrong. I truly get excited when my paradigm shifts, when I learn new things, or when I see things in a new way. Unfortunately, in my line of workContinue reading

Essays

The Rationalization of Misogyny: Why I left the Vegan Skeptic Community

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 31, 2016January 18, 2019

As readers may be aware, I take issue with the abolitionist position on atheism and feminism. I won't rehash those points here, but given those developments, myself and aContinue reading

Essays

Successful Defense

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 30, 2016January 30, 2016

This month I successfully defended my dissertation, Professionalization, Factionalism, and Social Movement Success: A Case Study of Nonhuman Animal Rights Mobilization. I am pictured here with my amazing chair Dr. Michael Carolan who specializes in environmental sociologyContinue reading

Presentations

Project Intersect in Bluestockings

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 11, 2016

While visiting New York City this weekend, I stopped into Bluestockings Bookstore and found Project Intersect for sale! I was beyond thrilled that my little essay on atheism in ecofeminist spaces was tucked away in thisContinue reading

Out & About

Medicalizing Animal Rights: New Publication

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 27, 2015December 30, 2018

What do you think? Are meat-eaters sick? Are animal abusers psychopaths? Do you think people who love some animals but eat other animals are morally schizophrenic? There is an awful lot of ableist claimsmaking taking placeContinue reading

Publications

Professor Wrenn Interviewed by Feminist Magazine on KPFK radio 90.7 FM

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 23, 2015September 23, 2015

In an interview hosted by Cherise Charleswell and Valecia Phillips, I will be discussing my forthcoming book, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory, as well as how veganism and the Nonhuman Animal rights movementContinue reading

Interviews

Tim Wise Anti-Racism in Education Workshop

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 22, 2015

Today I had the amazing privilege of attending a 5 hour education workshop with the esteemed Tim Wise at Monmouth University. During lunch, I was able to discuss with him one-on-one some of the patternsContinue reading

Out & About

The Pollination Project Funds Vegan Feminist Network

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 20, 2015

The Pollination Project has awarded Vegan Feminist Network a grant to support our expansion. I founded VFN in 2013 with the goal of building bridges between academia and advocacy and increasing diversity in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement. ThisContinue reading

Recognition

Review in Between the Species

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 14, 2015

My review of David Nibert's Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict (Columbia University Press) has been published in Between the Species 18 (1): 112-115.

Publications

Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).