Interviews – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Are Vegans too Open to Free-Riders?

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 11, 2018

In an interview with The Atlantic, I present the compelling findings from my publication, "Free-Riders in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: The Problem of Flexitarianism." In a meta-analysis of over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles on veganContinue reading

Dr. Corey Lee Wrenn featured on Maine Public Radio

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 14, 2016

Dr. Corey Lee Wrenn was featured on Maine public radio, Animal Sounds on WMPG 90.9FM on July 13th, 2016 to discuss Vegan Feminist Network advocacy strategies. In this 30 minute program Dr. Wrenn addresses intersections ofContinue reading

Corey Wrenn on Under the Toadstool

Dr. Corey WrennApril 2, 2015

Ms. Wrenn joins Sonia Chauhan and Sarah K. Woodcock to discuss the state of sexism in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement on Under the Toadstool, a woman-run podcast on vegan intersectionality politics.

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).