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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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Science was a Founding Principle of the Vegan Movement

Dr. Corey WrennApril 15, 2022April 15, 2022

A century ago, vegan founders warned that a disregard for science would imperil the movement’s effectiveness.  “Veganism has everything to gain by a wholehearted scientific attitude, and everything to lose by an unscientific approach,” one such leader concludes.  Has the modern vegan movement heeded the warning?

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The Extraordinary Monks of Skellig Michael and the Human/Nonhuman Boundary in Early Ireland

The Extraordinary Monks of Skellig Michael and the Human/Nonhuman Boundary in Early Ireland
Dr. Corey WrennMarch 17, 2021March 17, 2021
In 2018, I had the great privilege of visiting Skellig Michael off the coast of Co. Kerry, Ireland. Skellig Micheal is a rocky outpost in the wild Atlantic Ocean renowned for its medieval monastery thatContinue reading
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The Church and Medieval Ireland (Animals in Irish Society, Episode 2)

The Church and Medieval Ireland (Animals in Irish Society, Episode 2)
Dr. Corey WrennMarch 13, 2021March 13, 2021
The coming of Christianity would significantly alter the role of Nonhuman Animals in early Irish society. At a time of considerable political and economic upheaval, the boundary between human and animal was of critical interest.Continue reading
Animals in Irish Society

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).

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