Corey Lee Wrenn | |
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| Born | (1983-10-22)October 22, 1983 (age 41) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Academic |
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| Alma mater | Colorado State University |
| Thesis | (2016) |
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| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Sub-discipline | Animal rights movement;human-animal studies;veganism |
| Institutions | Monmouth University;University of Kent |
Corey Lee Wrenn (born October 22, 1983) is an Americansociologist specializing inhuman-animal studies, the sociology of theanimal rights movement,ecofeminism, andvegan studies.[1] She is presently alecturer in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at theUniversity of Kent.
Wrenn received aB.A. inpolitical science in 2005 and anM.S. in sociology in 2008, both fromVirginia Tech.[2] In 2013, Wrenn founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project.[3] She completed a PhD in sociology atColorado State University in 2016.[4]
Wrenn became a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology atMonmouth University in 2015.[4] She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar by theUniversity of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity in 2016.[5] Wrenn served as council member for theAmerican Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013–2016) and was elected chair in 2018.[6] She left Monmouth University and took up a lectureship in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at theUniversity of Kent in 2018.[4]
She serves as Book Review Editor forSociety & Animals and is a member ofThe Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee.[7]
Wrenn is asentientist,[8][9] anabolitionistvegan, and afeminist.[citation needed] She is the author ofA Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016)[8] andPiecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019).[citation needed]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)| External audio | |
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 "Episode 125: Animal Rights Professionalisation with Corey Lee Wrenn"Wrenn discussesPiecemeal Protest on theKnowing Animals podcast. |
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