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In addition to Kaitlyn Kitchen, CAF and NSCU Libraries have chosen as a 2024 Research Fellow Sarah Scott, a professor of philosophy at Manhattan College who is writing a monograph on the moral philosophy of British philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904). In addition to her fellowship at the Libraries, Scott will also be a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park this fall.
In addition to Sarah Scott, CAF and NCSU have chosen Kaitlyn Kitchen as a 2024 Regan Research Fellow. Kaitlyn is a rising senior at Appalachian State University, where they are majoring in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Philosophy. Their thesis project considers the potential limitations of animal rights organizations from feminist and anti-racist perspectives, with a strong consideration for the positive impacts of these groups. At the Archives at NCSU Kaitlyn will focus on how animal rights organizations used gendered appeals as a form of advocacy, such as sentimental fiction in the nineteenth century and sexualized billboards of vegan celebrity women in the twentieth century.
The Culture & Animals Foundation and NCSU Libraries have awarded 2024 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowships to Kaitlyn Kitchen (left), a rising senior at Appalachian State University, and Sarah Scott, a professor of philosophy at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY. The scholars will visit the Libraries for their month-long fellowships this summer.
The seventh annual Tom Regan Lecture was delivered on April 15, 2024 by Dinesh Wadiwel (above left, with Lori Gruen), Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Tom Regan (1938-2017) was the co-founder of the Culture & Animals Foundation with his wife Nancy (1938–2021). Together, they made a major contribution to animal rights. You can read about their and CAF’s origins, work, and legacy below.