Amy Fitzgerald

Amy Fitzgerald is professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor. She is the 2023-2025 University of Windsor Vice-President's (Research and Innovation) Internal 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, a former visiting research fellow in the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard University (2020), and is currently a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.