Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology, a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and founder of the Michigan State University 's interdisciplinary graduate specialization in Animal Studies: Humanities & Social Science Perspectives (http://animalstudies.msu.edu). Using a visual studies framework, she studies the cultural representations of humans and other animals and the links between culture and nature. She has published more than 30 articles and book chapters and seven books including:

Looking at Animals in Human History

A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity

The Animals Reader

Essentials of Social Research

and a reader in Environmental Values

In addition to serving as a General Editor for the multi-volume Cultural History of Animals, she also edits the forthcoming Cultural History of the Human Body, A Cultural History of Women and the Encyclopedia of Earth's sections on Animals & Society and Environmental Philosophy. She is listed in Who's Who in America , Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in the World.