Latest news

Professor Amy Fitzgerald, PhD

26th June 2023

is Full Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, and holds a hybrid appointment with the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, at the University of Windsor. She is the 2023-2025 University of Windsor Vice-President, Research and Innovation Research Chair. Her research focuses on the intersection of harms (criminal and otherwise) perpetrated against people, non-human animals, and the environment. She is currently working on three grant-funded projects, and has published many peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books. Recent book publications include Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism: Understanding and Bridging the Divide (Polity Press) and The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings (2nd ed., Routledge; co-edited with Linda Kalof). Fitzgerald is a founding member of the Animal and Interpersonal Abuse Research Group, the recipient of a Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the Mid-Career Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the University of Windsor, and was a visiting research fellow in the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard University in 2020.