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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College and Coordinator of Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership, Western University

An award-winning author, innovative researcher, and frequent media commentator, Dr. Coulter is widely recognized globally as a path-making analyst of animals and labour, animal protection, and horse-human relations. She is Canada's foremost academic expert on animal cruelty investigations and her latest book is Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection (MIT Press).

She is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and serves on the Canadian Violence Link Coalition Strategic Planning Committee, the board of the National Link Coalition (US), and the City of London's Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. Her fiction debut, The Tortoise's Tale, will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2025.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Huron University College

Education

  •  
    University of Toronto, PhD, Anthropology
  •  
    Huron University College, BA, Scholar's Electives

Honours

Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics; Member, The Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists