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Clare Palmer

Education

D Phil, The Queen’s College, Oxford
BA Hons (First Class), Trinity College, Oxford

Previous Appointments Held

Associate Professor, Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, USA (2005-2010)

Senior Lecturer, (Equivalent Associate Professor) Philosophy, Lancaster University, UK (2001 - 2005)

Lecturer (Equivalent Assistant Professor), Religious Studies, University of Stirling, UK (1998 - 2001)

Research Fellow, Philosophy, University of Western Australia (1997 - 1998)

Lecturer (Equivalent Assistant Professor), Environmental Studies, University of Greenwich, UK (1993 - 1997)

Gifford Research Fellow, Philosophy, Glasgow University (1992 - 1993)

Areas of Interest

Environmental philosophy
Applied ethics
Ethical theory
Environmental studies (humanities and social sciences approaches)
Environment and religion

Biographical Information

Clare Palmer has written three single-authored books, most recently Animal Ethics in Context (New York: Columbia University Press 2010) and has edited or co-edited a number of collections including Killing Animals, co-edited with the Animal Studies Group (Champaign- Urbana: Illinois University Press 2006) and the 5-volume collection Environmental Philosophy, co-edited with J.Baird Callicott (London: Routledge 2005). She was the founding editor of the journal Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion (Brill Academic Press) and held the position of President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics from 2007-2010.  She serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Environmental Values, Agricultural and Environmental Ethics and the new journal Environmental Humanities.