Dr. Sarah May Lindsay

Dr. Sarah May Lindsay (she/her) obtained her doctorate in Sociology from McMaster University. Dr. Lindsay's research areas include human-nonhuman animal relations, human and nonhuman animal shelters and housing, nonhuman companion animals, nonhuman animal use and abuse (abolitionism), environmentalism and social movements, intersecting social inequity, disability, “disease”, deviance, and speciesism. She works from the intersectional perspective of Critical Animal Studies and Vegan Sociology, leveraging progressive pedagogy for social change. Dr. Lindsay's dissertation research surveys companion animal co-sheltering policies and practices at women's emergency shelters in Ontario, Canada. Recent publications include a journal article on the "problem" of multispecies families in emergency women's shelters and a co-authored introductory chapter on the connectivity of critical animal and critical disability studies. Dr. Lindsay is also co-chair of CSA’s Animals in Society research cluster, elected council and Newsletter Editor for the ASA's Animals and Society Section, a steering committee member of the Canadian Violence Link Coalition, affiliated with the Animal and Interpersonal Abuse Research Group (AIPARG) and the International Association of Vegan Sociologists, and past Assistant Editor of the Student Journal of Vegan Sociology. Her current work involves homeless multispecies families, and she is leading an international research group on community cats.
Supervisors: Abe Oudshoorn, James Gillett, John Sorenson, Dorothy Pawluch, William Shaffir, June Corman, and Lauren Corman