Her area of research focuses on environmental justice issues of access to clean water and sanitation in low-income communities domestically and internationally. Carrera is part of the campus-wide Global Water Initiative. In 2014-2015 she completed postdoctoral training with the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI) at Northeastern University under the direction of Phil Brown. in Biostatistics from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Boston University. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. She has a joint appointment between the Department of Sociology and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. Jennifer Carrera is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the illustration of animals in popular science and has received funding from the National Science Foundation. She has served on the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council Committee’s review of the US wild horse and burro management program and the Advisory Boards of the National Museum of Animals and Society, Detroit Center for Zoo Animal Welfare, the Dama International Project, and was recently appointed an Annenberg Petspace Fellow. She was a General Editor for Berg's six-volume series A Cultural History of Animals (winner of the 2008 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title) editor of The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies (Oxford University Press, 2017) and The Animal Turn (Michigan State University Press). She has published widely in animal studies, including Making Animal Meaning, Looking at Animals in Human History, A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity, The Animals Reader, Essentials of Social Research, and a reader in Environmental Values. Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology, Professor of Community Sustainability and founder of MSU's interdisciplinary graduate specialization in Animal Studies.
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