SUBMIT
Please nominate yourself or others to be an ICAS Annual Fellow to allow an individual’s work to be promoted by ICAS and to receive the recognition they want and need to help them advance their career, research, goals, grants, or network. Fellows are given to people that are not students, but public intellectuals or professors. This position has no funding, but recognizes an individual on the ICAS website with the title of Annual Fellow and their picture, contact information, and biography.
Submit nominations from December 1 to December 31 of each year, with announcements in January.
These awards are decided by the Board of Directors of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and facilitated by the Director of the Critical Animal Studies Society.
The renewable Annual Scholars position (with no financial support) is a one year appointment for students.
If you would like to apply, please send:
1) a short biography third person one paragraph around 120 words;
2) four research interests;
3) your resumé/CV;
4) Full name, phone-number, e-mail, and mailing address to:
Dr. Richard Kahn, Director, Critical Animal Studies Society
rkahn@antioch.edu
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2026 and 2027 ICAS Fellows
Dr. Jennifer Salerno
AREAS OF INTEREST
1. critical pedagogy/ecoability
2. posthumanism/critical disability studies
3. radical self-care/collective healing
4. rights, respect, and equity for children
Jennifer Salerno is an early childhood educator and child advocate based in Baltimore, Maryland. Grounded in critical pedagogy, her work attempts to disrupt dominant ideologies and foster critical thinking, collective empowerment, and social transformation. Jennifer’s educational practice employs an emergent pedagogy that aims to reimagine ability, community, and interdependence with the natural world. As a doctoral candidate at Antioch University, Jennifer utilizes a transdisciplinary framework—drawing on ecoability, posthumanism, and transformative learning theory—to challenge normative notions of ability and independence. Her research strives to advance an ethic of interdependence that recognizes the entangled relationships between human and more-than-human beings in the pursuit of social, disability, and environmental justice.
2025 and 2026 ICAS Fellows
Dr. Jesika Keener
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Veganism
- Comprehensive Humane Education
- Total Liberation
- Ecolinguistics
Grounded in a commitment to total liberation, Jesika sees education as a catalyst for cultivating compassion and interconnectedness with all beings. Her work focuses on fostering spaces that reflect these values and empower others to pursue meaningful change. Jesika advances humane education through leadership and scholarship, serving on the Solutionary Business Leadership Advisory Council for the Institute for Humane Education, the Executive Board of Directors for the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, and the Board of Directors for the Association of Professional Humane Educators. In addition to these leadership roles, her ongoing work includes writing and presenting on humane education and critical animal studies. To learn more about her work, visit jesikakeener.academia.edu.
2024 and 2025 ICAS Fellows
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2020 and 2021 ICAS Fellows
Isabella LaRocca González
eyelarocca@gmail.com
Isabella LaRocca González is an artist, educator and activist working primarily with photography and motion pictures. Her work is part of a long tradition in photography: to bring to light and find beauty in the disregarded, hidden, unconscious, or commonplace. Awards for her work include the Ferguson Grant from the Friends of Photography in San Francisco, and CA for excellence and commitment to the field of photography. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States, including a solo show at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY. The work La Rocca creates and exhibits is deeply informed by her intersectional social justice animal liberation activism. In addition, animal advocacy organizations she has provided pro bono still and motion picture photography for include Free From Harm, Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary, Millacayohtl/Seed the Commons, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Berkeley Animal Shelter, Oakland Animal Shelter, Global March for Elephants and Rhinos, Factory Farming Awareness Coalition, National Animal Rights Day, Earth Hour San Francisco, Duo Duo Project, Direct Action Everywhere, Farm Sanctuary Walk for Animals, and Goatlandia Animal Sanctuary.
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Will Boisseau (England)
Areas of Interest
1. Anarchism
2. Intersectionality
3. Total Liberation
4. Speciesism
Will Boisseau completed his doctorate at Loughborough University in 2015. His research focuses on the place of animal rights within the British left, particularly on the relationship between the anarchist/direct action and legislative wings of the movement. His work explores the class and gender issues influencing this relationship, the marginalisation of animal rights in mainstream labour politics and a range of concepts including speciesism, total liberation, critical animal studies and intersectionality. Will is currently involved in trade union politics in the UK.
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The deadline for submission is September 30th.
2024 and 2025 ICAS Fellows
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2020 and 2021 ICAS Fellows
Isabella LaRocca González
eyelarocca@gmail.com
Isabella LaRocca González is an artist, educator and activist working primarily with photography and motion pictures. Her work is part of a long tradition in photography: to bring to light and find beauty in the disregarded, hidden, unconscious, or commonplace. Awards for her work include the Ferguson Grant from the Friends of Photography in San Francisco, and CA for excellence and commitment to the field of photography. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States, including a solo show at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY. The work La Rocca creates and exhibits is deeply informed by her intersectional social justice animal liberation activism. In addition, animal advocacy organizations she has provided pro bono still and motion picture photography for include Free From Harm, Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary, Millacayohtl/Seed the Commons, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Berkeley Animal Shelter, Oakland Animal Shelter, Global March for Elephants and Rhinos, Factory Farming Awareness Coalition, National Animal Rights Day, Earth Hour San Francisco, Duo Duo Project, Direct Action Everywhere, Farm Sanctuary Walk for Animals, and Goatlandia Animal Sanctuary.
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Will Boisseau (England)
Areas of Interest
1. Anarchism
2. Intersectionality
3. Total Liberation
4. Speciesism
Will Boisseau completed his doctorate at Loughborough University in 2015. His research focuses on the place of animal rights within the British left, particularly on the relationship between the anarchist/direct action and legislative wings of the movement. His work explores the class and gender issues influencing this relationship, the marginalisation of animal rights in mainstream labour politics and a range of concepts including speciesism, total liberation, critical animal studies and intersectionality. Will is currently involved in trade union politics in the UK.
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Dr. Simon Springer simonspringer@gmail.com
Simon Springer is Professor of Human Geography, Head of Discipline for Geography and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research agenda explores the geographies of neoliberalism, violence, and power. He cultivates a cutting edge theoretical approach to his scholarship by foregrounding a radical revival of anarchist philosophy, which includes challenging human supremacy and the violence of speciesism. Simon’s books include Fuck Neoliberalism (PM Press), The Anarchist Roots of Geography (University of Minnesota Press), The Discourse of Neoliberalism (Rowman & Littlefield), Violent Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan), and Cambodia’s Neoliberal Order (Routledge). His edited books include The Handbook of Neoliberalism (Routledge), The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia (Routledge) and the Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt trilogy (Rowman & Littlefield). He is currently working on two edited volumes entitled Vegan Geographies and Undoing Human Supremacy.
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Dr. Marek Muller
mullers@fau.edu
S. Marek Muller is an Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her work is at the nexus of environmental communication, critical intercultural communication, and rhetorical studies. Specifically, she is interested in the rhetorical constructions of “humanity” and “animality” as they are used in the service of human and nonhuman animal oppression and liberations.
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Z. Zane McNeill
mcneill_zoie@alumni.ceu.edu
Z. Zane McNeill is an indepedent scholar-activist whose research focuses on queer ecologies, socially engaged art, politichoreography, and critical geographies. His writing on anti-speciesism and consistent anti-oppression has appeared in Sentient Media, Animal People Forum, Crip HumAnimal, Animals in Society, and the Vegan Feminist Network. Their co-edited collection with Julia Feliz, Queer and Trans Voices: Achieving Liberation Through Consistent Anti-Oppression, was recently published with Sanctuary Publishers. He also has forthcoming collections coming out concerning anti-carceral veganism and queerness in Appalachia.
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