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New Books in Animal Studies

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Horses
Environmental History
Animal Rights
Animal Welfare
Colonialism
Central Asia
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Human-Animal Relationships
Animal Behavior
Animal Intelligence
Horse Domestication
Conservation
Folklore
Animals
Animal Ethics
Natural History
Anthropology
Animal Studies
Cats

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With senses that often seem alien to us, bees navigate complex decisions about where to find food, when to fight or flee, and how to work together. The Language of Bees (Princeton University Press, 2026) invites readers into the hidden world of bee c... more

In Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City (MIT Press, 2026), Dr. Lee Dugatkin chronicles this little-known crisis, revealing how the epidemic disrupted nearly every aspe... more

Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the latest in a long line of forces affecting human-animal relations. Grey parrots travelled t... more

Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong

(Cornell University Press, 2026) explores the dark side of colonial

modernity through canine eyes, showing the many ways that dogs

involuntarily contributed to the modernization of twentieth-c... more

The assumption that only humans can engage in politics—that only

humans are 'zoon politikon'—is foundational to the Western tradition of

political philosophy. While there is increasing recognition of animals'

moral status (both within moral philos... more

For

more than 10,000 years, cats have prowled at the edges of human life.

But, starting only a few decades ago, hundreds of millions of them

became pets. In Cats: A History

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026), Professor Rod Phillips shares a

... more

Anyone

alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of

species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of

ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever, or

as capable of pushing our pl... more

Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without being linked to animals. So how did the rat become the symbol of one of history's deadliest diseases? In... more

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Recent Guests

James Nieh
Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, UC San Diego
University of California, San Diego
Episode: James C. Nieh, "The Language of Bees" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Lee Dugatkin
Author of Nary a Horse Left Standing
University of Louisville
Episode: Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)
Raf de Bont
Professor of History of Science and Environment at Maastricht University, editor of Globalizing Wildlife
Maastricht University
Episode: Raf de Bont et al eds., "Globalizing Wildlife" (UNC Press, 2026)
Catherine S. Chan
Author of Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong
Cornell University Press
Episode: Catherine S. Chan, "Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Sue Donaldson
Author and animal advocate
University/Queen's University (affiliation discussed in interview)
Episode: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Will Kymlicka
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University
Queen's University
Episode: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Rod Phillips
Professor and author of Cats, A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026)
University/academic
Episode: Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Sadiah Qureshi
Professor and author of Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
Publication details provided in episode
Episode: Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)
Christos Lynteris
Professor, medical anthropologist
University of St Andrews
Episode: Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher
Host involved in interviews across animal studies channels; appears with multiple guests.
Christina Gessler
Host of Academic Life; conducts in-depth scholarly conversations.

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James C. Nieh, "The Language of Bees" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: What about danger signaling and how bees communicate threats inside and outside the nest?
Bees use stop signals to warn nestmates about dangerous food sources; higher-threat scenarios prompt more impactful signals, and some signals can indicate whether a threat is inside the nest or outside at a food source. The intensity and context of these signals can vary with colony size and threat level.
James C. Nieh, "The Language of Bees" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Can you explain the waggle dance and how it conveys direction and distance to a food source?
The waggle dance encodes distance and direction: the outbound leg correlates with distance, and the angle of the waggle relative to gravity encodes direction relative to the sun. The dance is performed on vertical surfaces, and bees use a clock-like interpretation of the sun's movement to stay accurate over time.
James C. Nieh, "The Language of Bees" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself and why you decided to write this book?
I'm James Nieh, a professor at UC San Diego. The book reflects decades of curiosity about how bees communicate, aiming to tell the story of what we know, what remains mysterious, and how future generations might uncover those gaps.
Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: Could you explain the minimal animal and the capacity contract and why they matter for animal politics?
They critique the idea that animals are only capable of suffering (minimal animal) and that politics requires high cognitive capacities (capacity contract). The authors argue for a broader, relational, and inclusive view of political agency that recognizes animals' capacities for self-governance, communication, and culture, and for designing political environments that acknowledge these forms of agency.
Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little and tell us why you decided to write this book?
Rod Phillips explains his long academic career, his interest in the history of cats sparked by a retirement plan, and how the project evolved from a general curiosity to a full-fledged book that examines cats from their earliest associations with humans to their modern cultural prominence.

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This show centers scholarly conversations about animals, ethics, history, and society, with guests ranging from political philosophers to historians, anthropologists, and scientists. Episodes often explore how humans relate to non-human beings—through political agency, kinship, domestication, justice, and care—drawing on archival research, primary texts, and contemporary ethical debates. Across recent episodes, co-authors and researchers discuss inclusive frameworks for animal agency, the historical dynamics of cats and other species, extinction and conservation, plague and zoonoses, and the ways literature, theology, and philosophy illuminate human–animal relationships. The format typically blends rigorous academic insight with accessible ... more

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