Amy Fitzgerald

Amy Fitzgerald, PhD is Full Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor. She is the 2023-2025 University of Windsor Vice-President Research and Innovation's Research Chair. Her research focuses on the intersection of harms perpetrated against people, non-human animals, and the environment. She has published many peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books and is currently working on three grant-funded projects. She was recently accepted as an expert on the relationship between animal abuse and intimate partner violence by the British Columbia Supreme Court. Fitzgerald the recipient of a Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the University of Windsor Mid-Career Outstanding Faculty Research Award, is currently a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard University in 2020 and 2024.

Session: Companion Animals and the Law: Rethinking Protection in the Shadow of Domestic Violence