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Zipporah Weisberg
Philosopher and Animal Ethicist
Independent
Zipporah Weisberg is Assistant Professor of Critical Animal Studies in the Department of Sociology at Brock University and Guest Researcher at The Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, Austria. Her academic areas of specialization include critical animal studies, the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School, and existentialism and phenomenology. She has published on a wide range of topics including climate justice and animal justice, the ethics and politics of cultured meat, biotechnology and animal exterminationism, and the psychopathology of specieism. In March 2021, Zipporah was awarded a Culture and Animals Foundation grant for her project on animal agency in animal sanctuaries. Zipporah is currently working on a book project on reinventing humanism as a multispecies political project. In her other life, Zipporah is an experimental dance video artist and performer.