Angie Pepper

Angie Pepper was the 2015-16 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Animal Studies at Queen’s University and was appointed Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Roehampton University in 2020. Angie completed her PhD in June 2013 at the University of Sheffield on feminist approaches to global justice and the need for gender-sensitive cosmopolitanism. Her work on global justice prompted Angie to think about the problematic anthropocentrism that frames the mainstream discourse on what we owe one another globally, and what we are entitled to do with the Earth’s resources. Angie argues that we must endorse non-anthropocentric cosmopolitan approaches to global justice, which means treating all individual sentient animals as the primary units of moral concern when thinking about resource distribution, climate change, and conservation. More recently, Angie’s research has focused on the normative significance of animal agency (what animals do and why it matters) and the implications of their agency for our practices and institutions. She is especially interested in the legitimacy of practices (e.g., domestication) and institutions (e.g. pet-keeping), which systematically subordinate animals to humans. Angie’s work has been published in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. She is also co-editor, with Valéry Giroux and Kristin Voigt of The Ethics of Animal Shelters (Oxford University Press, 2023).