Lisa Kemmerer is an American academic who has written on

animal ethics Animal ethics is a branch of ethics which examines human-animal relationships, the moral consideration of animals and how nonhuman animals ought to be treated. The subject matter includes animal rights, animal welfare, animal law, speciesism, an ...

and

environmental ethics In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...

. She is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at

Montana State University Billings Montana State University Billings (or MSU Billings) is a public university in Billings, Montana, United States. It is the state's third largest university. Its campus is located on 110 acres in downtown Billings. Formerly Eastern Montana Normal ...

, and is the author or editor of nine books.

Life

Kemmerer studied at

Reed College Reed College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, E ...

, at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

and at

Glasgow University The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as ''Glas.'' in post-nominals; ) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in , it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ...

in Scotland, where in 1999 she completed a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

with a dissertation on ''Protectionism: applying ethics consistently''. She is an

associate professor Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''. In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a position ...

Montana State University Montana State University (MSU) is a public land-grant research university in Bozeman, Montana, United States. It enrolls more students than any other college or university in the state. MSU offers baccalaureate degrees in 60 fields, master's d ...

Billings, Montana Billings is the most populous Lists of populated places in the United States, city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located in the south-central portion of the state, i ...

, where she teaches philosophy and religious studies. In 2012 she researched

wildlife conservation Wildlife conservation refers to the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural ecosystems. Major threats to wildlife include habita ...

in Kenya and Peru. Kemmerer has coined the term ''anymal'' as a " correct" term for non-human animals.

Publications

* ''In Search of Consistency: Ethics And Animals''. Leiden: Brill, 2006. * ''Curly Tails and Cloven Hooves, poems''. Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2011. * as editor, with Anthony J. Nocella: ''Call to Compassion: Reflections on World Religions and Animal Advocacy''. New York: Lantern Books, 2011. * ''Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. * ''Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary''. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011. * ''Animals and World Religions: Rightful Relations''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. * As editor: ''Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices''. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2012. * ''Bear Necessities: Protecting Bears through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary''. Leiden: Brill, 2015. * ''Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, Activism, and the Quest for Common Ground''. London; New York: Routledge, 2015. * ''Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kemmerer, Lisa 21st-century American philosophers 21st-century American women American animal rights scholars Animal ethicists Ecofeminists Harvard Divinity School alumni Living people Reed College alumni Year of birth missing (living people)

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