Recognition – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Named 2015-16 Recipient of Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, CSU Dept. of Sociology

Dr. Corey WrennMay 5, 2016May 5, 2016

I am so grateful and pleased to announced that I have been selected as the 2015-16 recipient of the Graduate Student Research Excellence Award by the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. In additionContinue reading

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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

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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

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NCID Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 28, 2015July 28, 2015

I am honored to announce that I have been named the 2016 Exemplary Diversity Scholar by the University of Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity. The NCID recognizes the contributions to both academia and communityContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. 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 is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. 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), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).