Emily Patterson-Kane is aKiwi-American animal psychologist who specializes inanimal welfare science.

Patterson-Kane was born inHamilton, New Zealand and obtained a master's degree fromUniversity of Waikato. She obtained a PhD in animal psychology from theVictoria University of Wellington in 1999. She did postdoctoral research in animal science at Purdue University and studied sustainable livestock systems at Scottish Agricultural College. She was an assistant professor in psychology atBradley University and Victoria University. In 2007, she accepted position of animal welfare scientist for theAmerican Veterinary Medical Association's Animal Welfare Division.^[1]

Patterson-Kane has co-authoredAnimal Welfare Science: an Inter-disciplinary Guide (2025),The Sciences of Animal Welfare (2008) andRethinking the Animal Rights Movement (2022).^[2] She is currently Director of Research of theAmerican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).^[2][3]

• Animal Welfare Science An Interdisciplinary Guide (2025, with Tina Rich)
• The Sciences of Animal Welfare (2008, with David Mellor and Kevin J. Stafford)^[4]
• History, Philosophies, and Concepts of Animal Welfare (2013, with Gail C. Golab)
• Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement (2022, with Michael P. Allen and Jennifer Eadie)^[5]

• American animal welfare scholars
• American animal welfare workers
• ASPCA workers
• Living people
• New Zealand emigrants to the United States
• People from Hamilton, New Zealand
• University of Waikato alumni
• Victoria University of Wellington alumni

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