What I Study/Do:
human animal studies, community engaged research and teaching, public and applied sociology, social inequality, social movements
What I teach:
Animals & Society, Community Engaged Sociology, Introduction to Sociology, Program Planning & Evaluation, Social Movements, Social Research, Survey Research
Curriculum Vitae
education
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2011
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University of California, Irvine
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology Dissertation: Moderates and Radicals Under Repression: The U.S. Animal Rights Movement, 1990-2010 |
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2008
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University of California, Irvine
Masters of Arts in Sociology Thesis: Internet Daters’ Body Types Preferences: Race-Ethnic and Sex Differences |
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2003
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Tulane University
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Cum Laude with Honors in Sociology Honors Thesis: Women in the Natural Sciences and Engineering: The Gendered Experience of Graduate School |
experience
CURRENT POSITIONS
2014 - present Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Leadership Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
2024-present Sociology Program Coordinator, Department of Sociology and Leadership Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
2021-present Founding Organizer, Animals & Society Colloquium Series, Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association
2024-present Founding Chair, Community for Community Engaged Scholars and Teachers (CEST), American Sociological Association
PAST POSITIONS
2020-2023 Advisory Committee, Sociology Action Network, American Sociological Association
2020-2022 Chair, Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association
2016 -2019 Director, Kessel Peace Institute, Minnesota State University, Mankato
2013-2014 Senior Researcher, Program for Torture Victims
2014 Instructor, Department of Sociology, Chapman University
2010- 2014 Editorial Collective, Journal for Critical Animal Studies
2011-2013 Social Sciences Research Network Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
2010-2012 Research Director, Humane Research Council (now known as Faunalytics)
2009-2010 Instructor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Long Beach
2005-2010 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine, Department of Sociology
2014 - present Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Leadership Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
2024-present Sociology Program Coordinator, Department of Sociology and Leadership Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
2021-present Founding Organizer, Animals & Society Colloquium Series, Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association
2024-present Founding Chair, Community for Community Engaged Scholars and Teachers (CEST), American Sociological Association
PAST POSITIONS
2020-2023 Advisory Committee, Sociology Action Network, American Sociological Association
2020-2022 Chair, Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association
2016 -2019 Director, Kessel Peace Institute, Minnesota State University, Mankato
2013-2014 Senior Researcher, Program for Torture Victims
2014 Instructor, Department of Sociology, Chapman University
2010- 2014 Editorial Collective, Journal for Critical Animal Studies
2011-2013 Social Sciences Research Network Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
2010-2012 Research Director, Humane Research Council (now known as Faunalytics)
2009-2010 Instructor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Long Beach
2005-2010 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine, Department of Sociology
publications
ARTICLES
London, Rebecca A., Douglas Hartmann, Nancy Plankey-Videla, Elizabeth Borland, Carol Glasser, “Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline,” Social Problems, 2024; https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae072
Glasser, Carol L. (2022). “The 21st Century Rabbit Paradox”: Attitudes Toward and Experiences with Rabbits in the United States. Society & Animals, 32(3), 287-308. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10100
Glasser, Carol L. 2021. “Attitudes toward Spay Neuter in the US population: Urban-Rural, Cat-Dog and Demographic Differences” Antrozoös. 34(1): 93-107, DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2021.1874112
Neitzke-Spruill, Logan and Carol Glasser. 2018. "A Gratuitous Grace: The Influence of Religious Set and Intent on the Psychedelic Experience." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2018.1494869
Robnett, Belinda, Carol L. Glasser, and Rebecca Trammell. 2015. “Waves of Contention: Relations Among Radical, Moderate, and Conservative Movement Organizations.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change 38: 69-101.
Glasser, Carol L. 2011. “Tied Oppressions: How Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment.” Brock Review 12(1): 51.
Humane Research Council. 2011. “Open Data: USDA Food Recalls, 2006-2010.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 9(3): 97.
Glasser, Carol L., Belinda Robnett and Cynthia Feliciano. 2009. “Internet Daters’ Body Types Preferences: Race-Ethnic and Gender Differences.” Sex Roles, 61: 14.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Glasser, Carol L. 2017. “The ABC’s of Vivisection: Animals (Nonhuman), Brutality, and Capitalism.” In Capitalism and Animal Oppression, Vol. 2 Ed. David Nibert. Prager Press, pp. 101-114.
Glasser, Carol L. 2017. “Cat Called in the Cafeteria: Managing and Teaching through Sexism from Students.” Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership, Eds. Kirstie Cole and Holly Hassel. Routledge, pp. 171-177.
Glasser, Carol L. 2016. “Opportunity Fields and Animal Rights: Is Corporate Incorporation a Route to Change?” In Animal Subjects 2.0, Ed. Jodey Castricano and Lauren Corman. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp. 369-404.
Glasser, Carol L. 2015. “Beyond Intersectionality to Total Liberation.” In Ed. Lisa Kemerer, Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground. New York: Routledge, pp. 41-19.
Glasser, Carol L. 2014. “The Radical Debate: A Straw Man in the Movement?” In, From the Margins to the Centre – The Rise of Critical Animal Studies, Ed. Nik Taylor and Richard Twine. New York: Routledge.
Glasser, Carol L. 2014. "Interview iwth Walter Bond, Current Political Prisoner." In The Terrorization of Dissent: Corporate Repression, Legal Corruption, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Ed. Anthony Nocella and Jason Del Gandio. Brooklyn: Lantern Books.
Glasser, Carol L. and Arpan Roy. 2013. “The Ivory Trap: Bridging the Gap Between Activism and the Academy.” In The Critical Animal Studies Reader, Ed. Anthony Nocella, II and John Sorenson. Peter Lang Publishers.
Glasser, Carol L. 2011. “Rational Emotions: Animal Rights, Feminist Theory, and Activist Insight.” In The Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond. Eds. Christopher Blazina, David S. Shen-Miller, and Guler Buynaz. New York: Springer, 307-319.
SELECT OTHER PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS
Pomije, Mitchel and Carol Glasser. 2023. “Food and Transportation Insecurity at Minnesota State University Mankato.” September 2023, Department of Sociology and Leadership Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Brooks, Alexis, Carol Glasser, Olivia Haefner, Elizabeth Staiger and Abby VanDien. 2023. “Getting out of Debt and Into Advocacy.” Exodus Lending, Spring 2023.
Glasser, Carol L. 2021. “Persuasive Blog Post Assignment.” Trails: The ASA's Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.
Glasser, Carol L. 2021. “Minnesota State Mankato Covid-Related Work Environment Experiences and Attitudes.” Fall 2021. Faculty Association, Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Glasser, Carol L. 2020. Experiences and Needs of International Students at Minnesota State University Mankato.” Fall 2020. Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Glasser, Carol L. 2020. “International Students at Minnesota State Mankato: Needs Assessment during Covid. Summer 2020. Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Glasser, Carol L., Vandhana Ramaduai, Steven Metts and Marija Drobnkjak. 2016. "Vallejo: City of Opportunity Lacks Access to Healthy Food." Food Empowerment Project. February 2016. Cotati, CA.
Glasser, Carol L. 2015. “Member Survey 2014-2015.” Assistance League of Tucson. August 2015. Tucson, AZ.
Glasser, Carol L. A Pattern of Abuse: Animal Welfare Violations in University of California Laboratories, August 2010 – June 2013. Progress For Science. August 2013. Los Angeles, CA.
PUBLISHED REVIEWS
Glasser , Carol L. 2018. “Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States” (Book Review). Anthrozoös, 31:4, 517-518. DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2018.1482122
Glasser, Carol L. 2013. “Review: African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. (Book Review). Mobilization 18 (1): 112.
Glasser, Carol L. 2012. “Review: Rio” (Film Review). Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10 (1): 193.
Glasser, Carol L. 2011. “Review: Vanishing of the Bees” (Film Review). Journal for Critical Animal Studies 9 (3): 119.
Glasser, Carol L. 2010. “Review: Skintrade” (Film review). Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 8 (4): 162.
Glasser, Carol L. 2008. “Online Matchmaking” (Book Review). Contemporary Sociology, 37 (4): 333.
London, Rebecca A., Douglas Hartmann, Nancy Plankey-Videla, Elizabeth Borland, Carol Glasser, “Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline,” Social Problems, 2024; https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae072
Glasser, Carol L. (2022). “The 21st Century Rabbit Paradox”: Attitudes Toward and Experiences with Rabbits in the United States. Society & Animals, 32(3), 287-308. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10100
Glasser, Carol L. 2021. “Attitudes toward Spay Neuter in the US population: Urban-Rural, Cat-Dog and Demographic Differences” Antrozoös. 34(1): 93-107, DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2021.1874112
Neitzke-Spruill, Logan and Carol Glasser. 2018. "A Gratuitous Grace: The Influence of Religious Set and Intent on the Psychedelic Experience." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2018.1494869
Robnett, Belinda, Carol L. Glasser, and Rebecca Trammell. 2015. “Waves of Contention: Relations Among Radical, Moderate, and Conservative Movement Organizations.” Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change 38: 69-101.
Glasser, Carol L. 2011. “Tied Oppressions: How Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment.” Brock Review 12(1): 51.
Humane Research Council. 2011. “Open Data: USDA Food Recalls, 2006-2010.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 9(3): 97.
Glasser, Carol L., Belinda Robnett and Cynthia Feliciano. 2009. “Internet Daters’ Body Types Preferences: Race-Ethnic and Gender Differences.” Sex Roles, 61: 14.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Glasser, Carol L. 2017. “The ABC’s of Vivisection: Animals (Nonhuman), Brutality, and Capitalism.” In Capitalism and Animal Oppression, Vol. 2 Ed. David Nibert. Prager Press, pp. 101-114.
Glasser, Carol L. 2017. “Cat Called in the Cafeteria: Managing and Teaching through Sexism from Students.” Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership, Eds. Kirstie Cole and Holly Hassel. Routledge, pp. 171-177.
Glasser, Carol L. 2016. “Opportunity Fields and Animal Rights: Is Corporate Incorporation a Route to Change?” In Animal Subjects 2.0, Ed. Jodey Castricano and Lauren Corman. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp. 369-404.
Glasser, Carol L. 2015. “Beyond Intersectionality to Total Liberation.” In Ed. Lisa Kemerer, Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground. New York: Routledge, pp. 41-19.
Glasser, Carol L. 2014. “The Radical Debate: A Straw Man in the Movement?” In, From the Margins to the Centre – The Rise of Critical Animal Studies, Ed. Nik Taylor and Richard Twine. New York: Routledge.
Glasser, Carol L. 2014. "Interview iwth Walter Bond, Current Political Prisoner." In The Terrorization of Dissent: Corporate Repression, Legal Corruption, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Ed. Anthony Nocella and Jason Del Gandio. Brooklyn: Lantern Books.
Glasser, Carol L. and Arpan Roy. 2013. “The Ivory Trap: Bridging the Gap Between Activism and the Academy.” In The Critical Animal Studies Reader, Ed. Anthony Nocella, II and John Sorenson. Peter Lang Publishers.
Glasser, Carol L. 2011. “Rational Emotions: Animal Rights, Feminist Theory, and Activist Insight.” In The Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond. Eds. Christopher Blazina, David S. Shen-Miller, and Guler Buynaz. New York: Springer, 307-319.
SELECT OTHER PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS
Pomije, Mitchel and Carol Glasser. 2023. “Food and Transportation Insecurity at Minnesota State University Mankato.” September 2023, Department of Sociology and Leadership Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Brooks, Alexis, Carol Glasser, Olivia Haefner, Elizabeth Staiger and Abby VanDien. 2023. “Getting out of Debt and Into Advocacy.” Exodus Lending, Spring 2023.
Glasser, Carol L. 2021. “Persuasive Blog Post Assignment.” Trails: The ASA's Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.
Glasser, Carol L. 2021. “Minnesota State Mankato Covid-Related Work Environment Experiences and Attitudes.” Fall 2021. Faculty Association, Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Glasser, Carol L. 2020. Experiences and Needs of International Students at Minnesota State University Mankato.” Fall 2020. Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Glasser, Carol L. 2020. “International Students at Minnesota State Mankato: Needs Assessment during Covid. Summer 2020. Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Glasser, Carol L., Vandhana Ramaduai, Steven Metts and Marija Drobnkjak. 2016. "Vallejo: City of Opportunity Lacks Access to Healthy Food." Food Empowerment Project. February 2016. Cotati, CA.
Glasser, Carol L. 2015. “Member Survey 2014-2015.” Assistance League of Tucson. August 2015. Tucson, AZ.
Glasser, Carol L. A Pattern of Abuse: Animal Welfare Violations in University of California Laboratories, August 2010 – June 2013. Progress For Science. August 2013. Los Angeles, CA.
PUBLISHED REVIEWS
Glasser , Carol L. 2018. “Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States” (Book Review). Anthrozoös, 31:4, 517-518. DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2018.1482122
Glasser, Carol L. 2013. “Review: African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. (Book Review). Mobilization 18 (1): 112.
Glasser, Carol L. 2012. “Review: Rio” (Film Review). Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10 (1): 193.
Glasser, Carol L. 2011. “Review: Vanishing of the Bees” (Film Review). Journal for Critical Animal Studies 9 (3): 119.
Glasser, Carol L. 2010. “Review: Skintrade” (Film review). Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 8 (4): 162.
Glasser, Carol L. 2008. “Online Matchmaking” (Book Review). Contemporary Sociology, 37 (4): 333.
awards & scholarships
2024 Faculty Research Grant ($3,000), Minnesota State University Mankato
2021 Clifton Bryant Animals and Society Course Award, Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association
2018 Faculty Research Grant ($3,000), Minnesota State University Mankato
Presidents' Civic Engagement Steward Award, Campus Compact Minnesota
2016 Frontier Forum Lectureship, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Global Education Travel Grant, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Faculty Curriculum Development Grant, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Outstanding Mentor, Undergraduate Research Center, Minnesota State University Mankato
2013 Faculty Paper of the Year, Institute for Critical Animal Studies
Pollination Project Grant (with Chandler Edwards)
2004-2009 Social Science Fellowship, University of California at Irvine
2007 Social Science Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at Irvine
2006 Summer Research Grant, School of Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine
2003 Phi Mu Sociology Award for outstanding graduating student, Tulane University, Department of Sociology
2003 Jesselyn Zurik Endowed Fund for Research, award for empirical research on women
2003 Deep South Regional Humanities Center Conference Grant
2002 Deep South Regional Humanities Center Research Grant
1999-2003 Founder’s Scholarship, Tulane University, $50,000
2021 Clifton Bryant Animals and Society Course Award, Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association
2018 Faculty Research Grant ($3,000), Minnesota State University Mankato
Presidents' Civic Engagement Steward Award, Campus Compact Minnesota
2016 Frontier Forum Lectureship, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Global Education Travel Grant, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Faculty Curriculum Development Grant, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Outstanding Mentor, Undergraduate Research Center, Minnesota State University Mankato
2013 Faculty Paper of the Year, Institute for Critical Animal Studies
Pollination Project Grant (with Chandler Edwards)
2004-2009 Social Science Fellowship, University of California at Irvine
2007 Social Science Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at Irvine
2006 Summer Research Grant, School of Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine
2003 Phi Mu Sociology Award for outstanding graduating student, Tulane University, Department of Sociology
2003 Jesselyn Zurik Endowed Fund for Research, award for empirical research on women
2003 Deep South Regional Humanities Center Conference Grant
2002 Deep South Regional Humanities Center Research Grant
1999-2003 Founder’s Scholarship, Tulane University, $50,000