Publications – Page 3 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Trump Veganism? Research Finds a Highly Intersectional American Vegan Movement

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 1, 2017January 11, 2019

Following the explosion of identity politics that culminated in the shocking 2016 presidential win for Donald Trump, I was curious as to whether these wider cultural trends could be related to the vocal resistance toContinue reading

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Fat Vegan Politics: Why Health-shaming, Body-policing, and Fat Stigma Hurts Humans and Other Animals

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 13, 2016December 16, 2018

This month I published a qualitative study on fat vegan experiences in the journal of Fat Studies. Sixty-one respondents kindly gave their time to fill out a questionnaire asking a range of questions about their experiencesContinue reading

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Review of “Our Children and Other Animals”

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 20, 2016

My review of Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart's sociological text on childhood studies and vegan theory is now available free to download from Volume 19 of Between the Species. This is an important contribution toContinue reading

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White Women Wanted? Research Uncovers Diversity Strains in Vegan Media Spaces

Dr. Corey WrennApril 24, 2016February 8, 2019

A two-part content analysis I began in 2012 has just been published in Societies and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. The first study, published in JAEE examined media diversity in the Nonhuman AnimalContinue reading

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Essay on Incorporating Diversity into Vegan Advocacy published on The Vegan Society

Dr. Corey WrennApril 8, 2016May 5, 2016

I have just published an essay originally authored in 2013 on The Vegan Society's blog. The essay is titled, "In a world of food deserts and many other inequalities, Professor Corey Wrenn gives tips onContinue reading

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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

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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.

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Status Contamination in Animal Rights

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 6, 2015February 27, 2015

My article, "Status Contamination: Women, Nonhuman Animals, and Intersectional Liberation" was published today in issue #8 of T.O.F.U. Magazine on sexism in the animal rights movement. Copies of the magazine are available on a pay-as-you-canContinue reading

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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).