Dr. Wrenn’s full list of publications is available here.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4041-0015Books
Wrenn, C. L. 2021. Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Ireland’s First Colony. New York: SUNY Press.
Book Chapters
Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Selling Veganism in the Age of COVID: Vegan Representation in British Newspapers in 2020.” Pp. 104-118, in Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises, J. Browne and Z. Sutton (Eds.). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881136.00019.
Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Sexism in Animal Activism: The Foie Gras Campaigns.” Pp. 563-576, in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals, C. Taylor (ed.). London: Routledge.
Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Nonhuman Animal Rights.” Pp. 148-161, in Handbook of Inequality and the Environment, M. Long, M. Lynch, and P. Stretesky (Ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881136.
Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Veganism.” Pp. 128-130, in Preconceived: Challenging the Perceptions in Our Lives, Z. Mednick (Ed). Self-published.
Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Vegan Geographies in Ireland.” Pp. 394-406, in The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, edited by L. Wright. London: Routledge.
Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Toward a Vegan Feminist Theory of the State.” Pp. 201-230, in Animal Oppression and Capitalism, edited by D. Nibert. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press.
Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “Human Supremacy, Post-Speciesist Ideology, and the Case for Anti-Colonialist Veganism.” Pp. 55-70, in Animals in Human Society, edited by D. L. Moorehead. Lanham, MD: University Press of America/Hamilton Books.
Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “The Weight of Veganism.” Pp. 164-165, in The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror, edited by Laura Wright. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Animalizing Appalachia: A Critical Animal Studies Analysis of Early Sociological Surveys of Southern Appalachia.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 29 (2): 145–165. DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.02.
Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Free-Riders in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: The Problem of Flexitarianism.” Society & Animals 26 (4): 567-591. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341544.
Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “College Student Literacy of Food Animal Slaughter in the United States.” International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 24 (2): 215-228.
Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “How to Help When It Hurts? Think Systemic.” Animal Studies Journal 7 (1): 149-179.
Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Fat Vegan Politics: A Survey of Fat Vegan Activists’ Online Experiences with Social Movement Sizeism.” Fat Studies 6 (1): 90-102. DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2017.1242359.
Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Skeptics and the ‘White Stuff’: Promotion of Cows’ Milk and Other Nonhuman Animal Products in the Skeptic Community as Normative Whiteness.” Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism 5 (1): 73-81.
Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “The Land of Meat and Potatoes? Exploring Ireland’s Vegan and Vegetarian Foodscape.” Preprint, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/t83yg
Wrenn, C. L. 2014. “Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals.” Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism 2 (1): 135-139.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “Nonhuman Animal Rights, Alternative Food Systems, and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.” Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 8 (2): 209-242. DOI: 10.22329/p.v8i2.4093.
Wrenn, C. L. 2011. “Resisting the Globalization of Speciesism: Vegan Abolitionism as a Site for Consumer-Based Social Change.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 9(3): 9-27.
Book Reviews
Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Human/Nonhuman Urban Ecology in Modernizing Ireland.” Society & Animals Journal 32 (5-6): 660-662. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-bja10168.
Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-activism.” Social Movement Studies 19 (1): 107-108. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2019.1630268.
Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “The Economic Toll of the Nonhuman Animal Agricultural Industry and a Meat Tax to Combat It.” Society and Animals 26 (6): 639-643. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341573.
Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “Mobilizing food: A review of Building Nature’s Market.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 8 (3): 207-211. DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2018.083.010.
Theses
Wrenn, C. L. 2008. Powerlessness and Pollution in Alleghany County, Virginia: A Historical Analysis of Paternalism and Economic Coercion in Appalachia and its Relationship with Environmental Degradation (Master’s thesis). Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
Conference Presentations
Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Animal Anxieties: Vegan Discourse in Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Ireland.” International Association of Vegan Sociologists Annual Meeting. October 6.
Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Selling Veganism in the Age of COVID: Vegan Representation in British Newspapers in 2020.” 2022. International Association of Vegan Sociologists Annual Meeting. October 8.
Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Animals in Irish Society.” Vegan Studies Network Seminar Series. May 25.
Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Vegan Ecofeminism.” Doing Global Gender, Perspectives on Gender and Re-Globalization, Center for Advanced Studies – EURAC Research. May 5.
Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Gaelic Vegetarianism and Veganism & Colonial Resistance.” Food History Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, Online. February 10.
Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Gaelic Veganism and Irish Animal Rights.” Talks for a Compassionate Future, Animal Rebellion Ireland, Online. January 18.
Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Vegan Food Culture.” Northeast Popular and American Culture Association, Online, October 23.
Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “V-Rated: Sexualization as a Mechanism of Food Justice Depoliticization.” Food & Food Systems in a time of Insecurity. British Sociological Association Food Study Group Conference, Online. June 22.
Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Animals and Society: A Canterbury Case Study.” University of Kent. Online. March 20.
Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Our Relationship to OUr Current Food System.” Jameson Humane Workshop. Online. February 17.
Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Animalizing Appalachia” Environmental History Workshop. Online. September 7.
Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “The Land of Meat and Potatoes? Animal Agriculture and Veganism in the Irish Discourse.” Thinking about Animals. St. Catharines, ON. March 2.
Wrenn, C. L. 2016. “Fat Vegan Politics: The Hyper-Visibility and Invisibility of Vegans of Size in Online Activist Spaces.” Gender, Bodies & Technology. Roanoke, VA. April 22.
Op-Eds
Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Opinion Piece.” Research Briefing, No. 2 Cultured Meat. The Vegan Society, November.
Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Can We ‘Have Our Cow and Eat Her, Too?’” The Vegan Society, Research News, April 17.
Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Animal Sentience Bill – A Marketing Ploy or Genuine Progress?” University of Kent News Centre, May 13.
Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Letter from Chair” American Sociological Association Animals & Society Section Newsletter, Spring.
Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Is Sociology Ready to take Animals Seriously Now?” British Sociological Association’s Everyday Society, April 16.
Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Letter from Chair” American Sociological Association Animals & Society Section Newsletter, Autumn.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “Health Benefits of Veganism.” VegFund Blog.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “Positively Engaging Your Non-Vegan Family.” VegFund Blog.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “Veganism and the Environment.” VegFund Blog.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Sexual Politics of Veganism.” Pacific Standard.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Sexual Politics of Veganism.” Sociological Images.
Nibert, D., C. Wrenn, and C. Glasser. 2012. “Animal Exploration.” American Sociological Association Footnotes.
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