Paul Waldau
Assistant Professor
Director, Center for Animals and Public Policy
Department of Environmental and Population Health
Phone: 508-887-4671
Fax: 508-839-3337
Email: paul.waldau@tufts.edu
Dept. URL: http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - Oxford University - 1997
Juris Doctor - UCLA - 1978
MA, Modern Religious Thought - Stanford University - 1974
General Research Interest
How nonhuman animals have been viewed in religious and cultural traditions, legal systems, and policy studies.
Research Sponsor Interest
Privately Funded Research
Selected Research Projects
Comparative studies of "religion and animals," modern communities of faith and other animals, legal systems and their evolving views of non-human animals.
Research and Clinical Interests
- Animals in world religions
- Animals in indigenous traditions
- International law and other animals
- World-wide variations and changes in national laws governing human relationships with other animals
- Past, present, and future policy possibilities regarding other animals
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2006 (book) A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics. Co-editor and contributor. Columbia University Press
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2004 (article) “Animals”, invited contribution to Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, editor (in chief) Lindsay Jones, New York: Macmillan
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2003 (article) “Religion and Animals: A Changing Scene,” in State of the Animals II, 2003, ed. by Deborah J. Salem and Andrew N. Rowan, Washington, D.C.: Humane Society Press, 85-98
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2002 (article) (co-author); "The Animal Invitation", Global Dialogue 4 (1): Spring 2002, 125-137
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2001 (book) The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals, New York: Oxford University Press
Web page of publications: http://http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/faculty_core_waldau.html