Tayler Zavitz: What's the crime: animal cruelty, or exposing it?

Tayler Zavitz is a PhD candidate, sessional instructor, and teaching assistant consultant and coordinator in the Sociology department at the University of Victoria. Her current research area is Political Sociology and Social Movements, with a specific focus in Critical Animal Studies. Her PhD research focuses on the repression of animal activism in Canada and the expanding criminalization of dissent. She also holds a Masters degree in Critical Sociology, with a focus in Critical Animal Studies, from Brock University. She is the current Social Media Coordinator for the Animals & Society Research Initiative at the University of Victoria, as well as a peer reviewer for the Journal for Critical Animal Studies.