Politics – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

A Sociology of Childless Cat Ladies

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 30, 2024July 30, 2024

Following the comments made by vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance on presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, I was approached by the Huffington Post to share my thoughts on the sociological background of the childless catContinue reading

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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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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).

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A Sociology of Childless Cat Ladies

Trump Veganism? Research Finds a Highly Intersectional American Vegan Movement

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