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Martin Rowe, CAF’s Executive Director, writes on his and CAF’s three-decades long connection with author Carol J. Adams. A video accompanying this article can be found at the jump.
The Culture & Animals Foundation is pleased to announce that J. M. Coetzee, the South African-born novelist, multiple Booker Prize winner, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been awarded the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize in recognition of his contribution to animal rights.
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.
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.