About the Authors
- About the Authors
idan breier, PhD, is a lecturer in Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel), where he earned his graduate and postgraduate degrees. His primary interest lies in biblical and Ancient Near Eastern history, in particular the international relations of this period in light of modern theories of international relations. His publications include discussions of the political and social history during the El-Amarna period and the late First Temple period. His research also deals with the reciprocal relationship between human and animals in the lands of the Bible and ancient cultures. Email: idan.breier@biu.ac.il
adam clulow is an associate professor in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, 2016), which received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize for World History from the American Historical Association, the International Convention of Asia Scholars 2015 Humanities Book Prize, the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize, and the W. K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Association. His second book, Amboina, 1623: Conspiracy and Fear on the Edge of Empire, was published by Columbia University Press in 2019. Dr. Clulow is also the editor of three books with Tristan Mostert, The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2018); with Lauren Benton and Bain Attwood, Protection and Empire: A Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia: Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations (Routledge, 2010). He has written widely on early modern torture and legal systems. Email: adam.clulow@austin.utexas.edu
daniel dombrowski is professor of philosophy at Seattle University. Among his books are Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2006); Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals (University of Chicago Press, 2009); and Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases (University of Illinois Press, 1997). Email: ddombrow@seattleu.edu
carl tobias frayne is a PhD candidate at St. John's College, Cambridge, and an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He has studied philosophy, history, and religion at Chicago, Melbourne, and Oxford. He has a long-standing interest in animal ethics and published several articles on the topic. His current research deals with practical philosophy and radical politics. Email: cd598@cam.ac.uk
samuel kahn is associate professor of philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. His books include A Problem-Based Introduction to Philosophy (Kendall Hunt, 2014) and Kant, Ought Implies Can, the Principle of Alternate Possibilities, and Happiness (Lexington Press, 2019). Research interests include Kant and Kantian ethics. Email: kahnsa@iupui.edu
oliver b. langworthy is associate lecturer in patristics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He has written on a range of topics in historical theology and church history and is the winner of the 2017 Eusebius Prize from the Journal of Ecclesiastical History for his work on Gregory of Nazianzus's title. He is also an academic editor with the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Email: obl@st-andrews.ac.uk
jan lauwereyns is a professor at the University of Kyushu, Japan. He has published articles in journals such as Nature, Neuron, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences and the monographs The Anatomy of Bias, and Brain and the Gaze with MIT Press (2010). His most recent book is Rethinking the Three R's in Animal Research: Replacement, Reduction, Refinement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Email: jan@sls.kyushu-u.ac.jp
randy malamud is the author of 11 books, including most recently The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Human Tourist (Intellect, 2018). He is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Email: rmalamud@gsu.edu
hadas marcus is an instructor of English for environmental studies and writing at Tel Aviv University. She belongs to a research forum on the human-animal bond, also at Tel Aviv University, and is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Hadas has presented dozens of papers at international conferences on ecocriticism, animal welfare, and...
