During the academic years 1996/97 and 1997/98, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies focused on the problem of animals and human society.
Topics Included:
- Behavior and aggression
- Symbolic interpretation of animals
- The slaughterhouse
- Gender and sexuality
- Ethics and humane treatment
- Social hierarchies
- Language and modes of communication
- Self-awareness
- Human intervention in ecosystems
- Social Darwinism
- The construction of group identity
- Classification
Davis Center Fellows
1996-1997
- Katherine Grier, University of Utah
- William Hallo, Yale University
- Richard Hoffman, York University
- Andrew Isenberg, Brown University
- Karen Rader, Harvard University
- Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Edward Steinhart, Texas Tech University
1997-1998
- Mary Fissel, Johns Hopkins University
- Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University
- Susan Lederer, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
- Robert Meens, Utrecht University
- Gregg Mitman, University of Oklahoma
- Francois Pouillon, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
- James Serpell, University of Pennsylvania
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Volume
The Animal / Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives
Edited by Angela Creager and William Chester Jordan
Copyright 2003 University of Rochester Press
Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture
Edited by Mary J. Henniger-Voss
Copyright 2003 University of Rochester Press