Rationality – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

The Nonprofit Bias: Research For Nonprofits By Nonprofits

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 26, 2021December 27, 2021

Until nonprofits provide transparency with regard to what influences their goalsetting and outcome analyses, their research should be considered unreliable and ungeneralizable.

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Derren Does Dairy: When Skepticism Fails Veganism

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 26, 2016December 16, 2018

Derren Brown is a British illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic known for divulging the secrets of magicians, psychics, and new age charlatans. Folks in Brown's line of work spend a great deal of effort debunking bogusContinue reading

The Rationalization of Misogyny: Why I left the Vegan Skeptic Community

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 31, 2016January 18, 2019

As readers may be aware, I take issue with the abolitionist position on atheism and feminism. I won't rehash those points here, but given those developments, myself and aContinue reading

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).