Dr Catherine Duxbury

Dr Catherine Duxbury

LSE Fellow

LSE100

Office Hours
Odd weeks: Mon 12:00-13:00 (KSW.3.08) & Even weeks: Tue 10:30-11:30 (KSW.3.08)
orcid
0000-0002-6258-3702
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Human-animal studies, Environmental social science, Critical pedagogy

About me

I am an interdisciplinary social science researcher specialising in the area of Critical Animal Studies, focusing particularly on the interrelationship on the gendered nature of nonhuman animal representation. After completing my undergraduate degree in psychology, I studied for an MA and PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex. My PhD focused on animal experimentation in mid-twentieth century Britain, analysed through a feminist lens. My book: Science, Gender and Animal Experimentation in Britain since 1945 will be published this Autumn. My research interests fall broadly under environmental social science, feminism and the history and sociology of science.

I also have over a decade of teaching experience and have held teaching postions at the University of Essex, in the interdisciplinary Studies Centre and the Sociology Department. In my teaching practice, I draw inspiration from the works of many critical pedagogy scholars including; Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and bell hooks.

Expertise Details

Critical animal studies; Animal experimentation; Intersectionality

Publications

Book:

Duxbury, C (2021). Science, Gender and the Exploitation of Animals in Britain Since 1945. London: Routledge (Part of the Solving Social Problems series edited by Bonnie Cherry)

Journal Articles:

Duxbury, C (2019). Of Monkeys, Men and Menstruation: Gendered Dualisms and the Absent Referent in Mid‐Twentieth Century British Menstrual Science. Journal of Historical Sociology, 32: 94– 107. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12218

Duxbury, C (2019). Property, Pain and Pastoral Power: Animal Experimentation and the Review of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act, 1947-1965, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 16 (2): 30-33.

In progress:

Duxbury, C (2021). Human Animality: How Speciesism and Racism Intersect in Western Narratives on the Origins of Covid-19. Target journal: Social Studies of Science.

Duxbury, C (2022). Another World is Possible: A Comparative Study of Industrialised Animal Agriculture and Indigenous People’s Views on Animals

Media:

Duxbury, C & Samson, C (2022) Our meat obsession is destroying the planet – the solution is to change how we see animals. The Conversation

Duxbury, C (2020). Intersectional Discrimination: COVID-19, Racism and Speciesism. Cost of Living; available at: https://www.cost-ofliving.net/intersectional-discrimination-intersectional-discrimination-covid-19-racism-and-speciesism/

Conferences and Public Events

INVITED PUBLIC TALKS/LECTURES

2019: Of Monkeys, Men and Menstruation: Gendered Dualisms and the Absent Referent in Mid-Twentieth Century British Menstrual Science. Lecture Series: Gender Studies Meets Animal Studies, Institute for Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt University Zu Berlin, Germany. (Invited Lecture).

CONFERENCES

2019: The Biopolitics of Death: Animal Experimentation at Porton Down and the Creation of Britain’s Military-Animal-Industrial Complex, 1947-1955. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de comunicació, Barcelona, Spain. The Sixth Annual European Critical Animal Studies Conference.

2017: Animals, Law and Gender: Power, Pain and the Review of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act, 1962-1965, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.

2016: ‘Stress without Distress’: British Medical Research, Animal Stress and Gender, 1946-1965, University of Harvard, Boston, MA. ACLA Annual Conference, (Animal) Cruelties

2013: The Animal Body in Vivisection, 1965-1970, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Postgraduate Sociology Conference.

2012: Masculinist Tropes and Sadistic Patriarchy: British Representations of Animals in the Space Race, 1945-1961 Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Staff-Student Liaison Seminar

2012: Fighting Cocks and Abject Bitches, Women and animals Theoretical Perspectives University of Exeter, Animals in Society Postgraduate Conference

Awards

2017: Student Choice Awards, Department of Philosophy and Art History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Centre, University of Essex. Nominated for prize for ‘Teaching Excellence and Support’ Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism

2016: Student Choice Awards, Department of Sociology, University of Essex. Nominated for prize for ‘Best Module’ Introduction to Social Psychology (Sociology)

2012: Don Pike Award, Department of Sociology, University of Essex. Prize awarded for the best, first time GTA employed by the Department of Sociology.