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Starting this year (2009-2010) the ICAS Board of Directors will be elected each academic year (Fall and Spring) by members of ICAS. This years amazing and very energized board of Directors are President – Dr. Richard Twine at Lancaster University, Vice-President – Dr. Lisa Kemmerer at Montana State University, Billings, Secretary – Anastasia Yarbrough, and Treasurer – Anthony J. Nocella, II at Syracuse University. This year is the most international board we have ever had, representing three different countries. The goal of this years board is alliance politics and activism in higher education; you will therefore see many more lecture series, conferences, and forums on college campus around the theme of critical animal studies. You will also see ICAS striving to work with many more people, while holding to our values and goals.
Dr. Richard Twine, President is presently in a mostly research position with a focus on animal genomics and biotechnology. He is specifically interested in the different frames, such as sustainability, used to argue for such technologies. His intellectual homes are animal studies, gender studies, environmental ethics and sociological theory. He is also increasingly interested in the global political economy of food; theories and practices of critical posthumanism, as well as rejoining earlier interests in intersectionality theory, including but not limited to theories of ecofeminism. Moreover he has written on the idea of critical bioethics. His academic interests are informed by a commitment to critical thinking, a reflexivity toward the relationships between academia and activism, and a commitment to a posthumanist politics of intersectionality. He also teaches a small amount on subjects as diverse as genomics and society, critical animal studies, and masculinities.
Dr. Lisa Kemmerer,Vice-President earned a Masters Degree in Theology from Harvard Divinity School and her PhD in Philosophy from University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has also traveled widely, spending several years in Asia, with a special interest in exploring Asian religions. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Montana State University, Billings, teaching courses in philosophy and religious studies, including feminism and animal liberation. Lisa has written, directed, and produced two documentaries on Buddhism, and also numerous articles in the area of philosophy and religions. She has most recently published Ethics and Animals: In Search of Consistency (Brill, 2006), and has two books forthcoming: The Buddha, the Bible, and the Beasts, and Real Christians Don’t Eat Meat.
Anastasia Yarbrough, Secretary earned a BS from the University of Vermont, where she studied animal behavior & ecology and human-wildlife relationships. During her undergraduate career, she devoted much of her time to social justice. She served on the President’s Committee for Racial Diversity and the Rubenstein School’s Diversity Task Force. She also served as secretary for the Black Student Union, and helped coordinate social events with Queer People of Color. As a result of her passion to promote animal liberation and justice, she founded Students for True Animal Rights, an SGA organization at the University of Vermont, and she also interned at Farm Sanctuary. She is currently planning to pursue a master’s degree in critical animal geographies and human-wildlife conflicts.
Anthony J. Nocella, II, Treasurer teaches classes in Sociology and Criminology at Le Moyne College. He has provided conflict transformation workshops and classes to NGOs, ROTC, U.S. military, law enforcement and public safety officials and in prisons, juvenile halls, and middle schools and high schools. He has been involved in numerous political campaigns, organizations, and international demonstrations fostering direct democracy and is a co-founder of more than fifteen active political organizations and four scholarly journals. He has published more than twenty-five scholarly articles and is working on his tenth book, co-edited with Dr. Richard Kahn, Greening the Academy: Environmental Studies in the Liberal Arts (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming). His other books include A Peacemaker’s Guide for Building Peace with a Revolutionary Group (PARC, 2004), co-editor with Dr. Steve Best, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (Lantern Books, 2004); and, with Steve Best, Igniting a Revolution Voices in Defense of the Earth (AK Press, 2006). His site is www.peacebuilding.info.
