The NYU Animal Studies Initiative accepted proposals, from NYU graduate students, on a range of projects and activities related to animal studies. For more information on the funding opportunity visit - http://animalstudies.as.nyu.edu/object/animalstudies.graduatesupport

Summer & Fall 2012 Award Recipients:

Amy Leigh Field
Project: Undertaking ethnographic fieldwork in Germany in order to examine the activism surrounding the rejection of religious slaughter practices.

Liza Blake & Kathryn Vomero Santos
Project: A scholarly edition of English Renaissance translations of animal fables entitled Arthur Golding’s A Morall Fabletalke and Other Renaissance Moral Fables.

Maria Loredana Loy
Project: Presenting a paper, The Social Impact of Cinematic Discourse, at the Minding Animals Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands.