About
ASRI Affiliated Faculty
Professor Faculty of Law
Office: FRA 230 mdeckha@uvic.ca 250-721-8175
Professor, UBC Okanagan Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
Dr. Jodey Castricano is a Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. Her teaching is grounded in Eco-Criticism and Critical Animal Studies, and turns upon the question of posthumanism as being “after humanism” and anthropocentrism.
Associate Professor, Brock University Department of Political Science
Stefan Dolgert (PhD, Duke; BA, University of Southern California) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. He writes and teaches on themes of inclusion and exclusion in democratic theory, and is especially interested in ancient Greece, classical China, posthumanism, critical animal studies, and Afrofuturism.
ASRI Graduate Student Fellows
Sessional Instructor Environmental Studies
Psychology
Theatre
Psychology
Liz Williams is a PhD candidate in Environmental Psychology at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on relationships between humans and other species, broadly and in the context of wildlife conservation and trade, pet-keeping, and ecotourism. She works on topics of ecoanxiety and eco-grief, and draws on social psychological theories to examine inter-group relationships between species (e.g., speciesism).
ASRI Alumni Scholars
Philosophy
Sessional Instructor Sociology
Dr. Tayler Zavitz is the Advocacy Programs Specialist at Animal Justice. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Victoria, with a specialization in Critical Animal Studies. Her doctoral research explored the history of the animal rights movement in Canada, focusing on its repression and criminalization, as well as the emotional experiences and responses of activists facing such repression.
Ranjana Basu completed her doctoral program at Royal Roads University. She has practiced social work for a number of years and her research titled “Linking Animals, Social Justice and Social Work” aims to create a pathway for social workers to consider the wellbeing of non-human animals in their practice. She is interested in action research related to reshaping of animal-human relations and countering speciesism.
ASRI Project Coordinator Faculty of Law
As ASRI's Project Coordinator, Holly Cecil values working with the dedicated scholars in the growing discipline of Critical Animal Studies. Employing filmmaking to conduct and share research, her interests span a broad range including addressing exploitation of animals, human-animal relationships, interspecies empathy and cooperation, and social movements promoting plant-based dietary initiatives.
Annette Dehalt (BSc, BEd, MSc) is a retired instructor from Camosun College’s Biology Department and Environmental Technology Program. Throughout her career, she has incorporated topics of animal sentience, compassionate conservation and anthrozoology into her biology lectures. Annette also initiated and facilitated an Animal Ethics group at Camosun.