Brianne Donaldson (editor) - Feeling Animal Death: Being Host to Ghosts

Shira Avivi-Weisz is a designer and illustrator. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, where she now lives and works.

Saadullah Bashir teaches economics at the University of Redlands and the University of La Verne in Southern California. He will complete his PhD in economics in spring 2019 from Claremont Graduate University. His research interests include behavioral economics, behavioral political economy, and uncertainty and decision making.

Matthew Calarco is professor of philosophy at CSU Fullerton, where he teaches courses in Continental philosophy and animal and environmental philosophy. His work focuses on the intersection of animal issues and social justice movements. Calarco has published numerous articles and books in critical animal studies, the latest of which is Thinking through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction (2015).

Christopher Carter is an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego. His teaching and research interests are in black and womanist theological ethics, environmental ethics, religion and food, and religion and animals. His publications include The Spirit of Soul Food (forthcoming), Blood in the Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism, in The Bloomsbury Handbook on Religion and Nature (2018), and the co-edited volume The Future of Meat without Animals (2016). In these projects, he explores the intersectional oppressions experienced by people of color, the environment, and nonhuman animals.

Susie Coston is the national shelter director for Farm Sanctuary, the largest farm animal rescue and protection organization in the United States. With more than two decades of experience working with farm animals, Susie leads the annual Farm Animal Care Conference, providing hands-on training for people interested in caring for farm animals. She also created the Animals of Farm Sanctuary project in 2016, where she frequently shares stories about rescued farm animal friends and the abuses that sentient creatures routinely face in the animal agriculture industry. When she is not at one of Farm Sanctuarys shelters, she shares her home with eight cats and two dogs.

Amy Defibaugh is the director of graduate affairs for the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on death and dying studies, animal studies, and feminist and queer theory. Her recent dissertation explores the death and dying of companion animals in North America, companion animal end-of-life and after-death care, and the imagining and creation of new religious and mourning rituals. Amy also does consulting work for animal end-of-life and after-death care and facilitates a pet loss and grief support group. She lives with her partner and companion animals, Maple and Margaret, in Philadelphia.

Brianne Donaldson is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (2015) and the edited collections Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (2014) and The Future of Meat without Animals (with Christopher Carter, 2016). She is assistant professor in religious studies and philosophy at University of California, Irvine.

Justin Fifield is a visiting assistant professor of religious studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His research focuses on Buddhist monastic literature and ethics. In his research, Justin is exploring affect and emotion in relation to critical theory emerging from the intersection of animal studies, disability studies, and religious studies. Although a specialist of Buddhist traditions in South Asia, Justin is committed to findings ways to bring insights from Buddhist practice into our ways of being with and for one another.

John P. Gluck is emeritus professor of the University of New Mexico and research professor of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with clinical training at the University of Washington, Department of Psychiatry. He completed a fellowship in bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the National Institutes of Health. His books include Applied Ethics in Animal Research (2002), coauthor with Tom L. Beauchamp et al. of two editions of The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice (1998, 2008), and Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientists Ethical Journey (2016).

Brian G. Henning is professor of philosophy and environmental studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Author of seven books and more than thirty articles, his work includes the award-winning book The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive Cosmos (2005) and the articles Trusting in the Efficacy of Beauty: A Kalocentric Approach to Moral Philosophy and Standing in Livestocks Long Shadow: The Ethics of Eating Meat on a Small Planet. His most recent book is Riders in the Storm: Ethics in an Age of Climate Change (2015) .

Hope Philea Henning is a student at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington. She enjoys reading fantasy, science fiction, or adventures in faraway places. An aspiring fiction author, she writes poetry and short stories that she shares with her friends and family. Raised a vegetarian, she is passionate about animal and environmental rights movements.

L. Syd M Johnson is a philosopher, bioethicist, and neuroethicist, and an associate professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University. The focus of her research is on brain injuries, brain death, and animal ethics. She coedited The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics (2018) and coauthored Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers Brief (2019).

Nathan P. Kalmoe is assistant professor of political communication in the Manship School of Mass Communication and the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He is coauthor of Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public (2017) and author of several articles on public opinion, communication, psychology, and race. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan (2012).

Ashley King is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Northwestern University. Their dissertation tracks trans* themes in contemporary speculative fiction. They aim to show how transness provides a crucial method for reading skin and flesh, presence and absence, through diverse mediations and entanglements that leave human and nonhuman identities open to revision. They live in Chicago with a twenty-pound cat named Renaldo.

Anne Mamary is professor of philosophy and womens studies at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. Her research areas include ancient philosophy (especially Plato), feminist philosophy, environmental ethics, and postcolonial studies. She is editor, with Gertrude James Gonzalez, of Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices (1999) and of Transfigurations: Harry Potter and Alchemy (2020). Her articles appear in several edited collections as well as in journals, such as Reason Papers , International Studies in Philosophy , Womens Studies , and Feminist Studies . She participated in the Council of Independent Colleges and Harvard Universitys Center for Hellenic Studies seminar on ancient Greece in the modern classroom, The Verbal Art of Plato, in 2017.

Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photographer, author, and educator based in Toronto, Canada. Through her long-term body of work, We Animals, she has been documenting our complex relationship with animals around the globe for fifteen years. McArthur has won numerous awards and accolades, including the 2017 Natural History Museums Wildlife Photographer of the Year Peoples Choice Award, Humane Canadas 2018 Animal Welfare Leadership and Innovation Award for Public Engagement, and many others. McArthur also cofounded the Unbound Project to document women on the front lines of animal advocacy. McArthur is the author of two books, We Animals (2014) and Captive (2017), and was the subject of Canadian filmmaker Liz Marshalls acclaimed documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013).