Publications – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Third-Wave Vegan Feminism and Feminist Animal Studies

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 22, 2023February 22, 2023

In my chapter for Feminist Animal Studies (Routledge 2022) edited by Erika Cudworth, Ruth E. McKie and Di Turgoose, I argue that vegan feminist activism has entered a millennial third wave. This wave, I argue,Continue reading

Essays

Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020

Photo Credit: Lynda Bell Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019) is the culmination of ten years of research covering four decades of Nonhuman Animal rights claimsmaking producedContinue reading

Publications

Solving Moral Conflicts in a Non-Vegan World

Dr. Corey WrennMay 12, 2018January 11, 2019

In "How to Help When It Hurts?" my friend and colleague Cheryl Abbate considers an ethical conundrum often facing vegan activists, advocates, and rescuers who feel responsible for the well-being of Nonhuman Animals in adverseContinue reading

Publications

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

Adviser to the INSSVV, University of Vienna

Dr. Corey WrennApril 30, 2015July 28, 2015

I am pleased to announce that I have joined the Advisory Board for the FEWD Research Area Foodethics and International Network for Social Studies on Vegetarianism and Veganism with the University of Vienna. I willContinue reading

Service Work

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

Publications

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).