Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Cheryl Abbate is a philosophy PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder and an animal rights scholar and activist. She specializes in nonhuman animal ethics, military ethics, environmental philosophy, and feminist philosophy. Through her research, Ms. Abbate attempts to bring animal rights into conversation with mainstream ethical discourse. She has published on abortion and animal rights, self-defense theory and animal rights, normative ethics and animal liberation, and the intersection of theories of consciousness and animal morality. E-mail: Cheryl.abbate@colorado.edu
Cecilia Åsberg is Head of the Gender Studies Unit at Linköping University (Sweden) and Director of The Posthumanities Hub. She has over sixty publications including most recently “Resilience Is Cyborg: Feminist Clues to a Post-Disciplinary Environmental Humanities” (Resilience, 2013): and “The Timely Ethics of Posthumanist Gender Studies” (feministische studien 2013). Together, Åsberg, Astrida Neimanis, and Johan Hedrén intiated the Environmental Humanities Collaboratory at Linköping University in 2014, of which Dr. Åsberg is the Director. E-mail: cecilia.asberg@liu.se
Patrik Baard is a Ph. D. Candidate at the Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Philosophy and History of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research mainly concerns the relation between goals and means in long-term planning, and normative issues related to climate change and the environment. He is especially interested in possible obligations to set goals that are uncertain or unlikely to be achieved. He has published on utopian goals in Journal of Risk Research and Ethics, Policy & Environment. E-mail: patrik.baard@abe.kth.se
H. Louise Davis earned a PhD in American Studies from Michigan State [End Page 141] University in 2008. She is currently Associate Professor of American Studies and Chair of Integrative Studies at Miami University. Her research explores political consumer movements, social and environmental justice issues, representations of marginalized groups in fiction and non-fiction film and media, and the socio-eco politics of food and fuel. Email: hlouise.davis@gmail.com
Johan Hedrén is Associate Professor of Environmental Change in the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University (Sweden) and co-coordinator of LiU’s Green Critical Forum. His publications in the natures and cultures of environmental politics include, most recently, Green Utopianism: Politics, Perspectives and Practices (coauthored with Karin Bradley, Routledge 2014) and “New Ideas About Sustainability? The Case of Chemical Management in EU” (coauthored with O. Udovyk) for The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice. Together, Hedrén, Cecilia Åsberg, and Astrida Neimanis intiated the Environmental Humanities Collaboratory at Linköping University in 2014, of which Åsberg is the Director. E-mail: johan.hedren@liu.se
Magdalena Holy-Luczaj is a PhD student at the Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. During the 2013–14 academic year, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Her research interests include the history of contemporary continental philosophy (especially the philosophy of Martin Heidegger), philosophical anthropology, and environmental philosophy. E-mail: m.holy.luczaj@gmail.com
Astrida Neimanis is Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (Australia). She has published widely on issues related to water ethics, environmental human rights, and feminist environmental philosophy, including ”Weathering: Transcorporeality and the Thick Time of Climate Change” (with R. Loewen Walker, Hypatia 2014) and “Alongside the Right to Water, A Posthumanist Feminist Imaginary” (Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2014). She is co-editor of Thinking with Water (MQUP 2013). Together, Neimanis, Cecilia Åsberg, and Johan Hedrén intiated the Environmental Humanities Collaboratory at Linköping University in 2014, of which Dr. Åsberg and Dr. Hedren are Co-Directors. E-mail: astrida.neimanis@gmail.com [End Page 142]
Julie A. Nelson is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute. She is the author of Economics for Humans (2006) and many other works which examine the relationship of economics to feminism, ecology, and ethics. Her articles have appeared in journals ranging from Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy to Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy and Ecological Economics. E-mail: julie.nelson@umb...
