| Corey Lee Wrenn | |
| Birth Date: | 22 October 1983 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Academic |
| Alma Mater: | Colorado State University |
| Thesis Year: | 2016 |
| Discipline: | Sociologist |
| Sub Discipline: | Animal rights movement
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| Workplaces: | Monmouth University |
Corey Lee Wrenn (born October 22, 1983) is an American sociologist specializing in human-animal studies, the sociology of the animal rights movement, ecofeminism, and vegan studies.[1] She is presently a lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent.
Wrenn received a B.A. in political science in 2005 and an M.S. in sociology in 2008, both from Virginia Tech.[2] In 2013, Wrenn founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project.[3] She completed a PhD in sociology at Colorado State University in 2016.[4]
Wrenn became a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Monmouth University in 2015.[4] She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity in 2016.[5] Wrenn served as council member for the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016) and was elected Chair in 2018.[6] She left Monmouth University and took up a lectureship in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent in 2018.[4]
She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee.[7]
Wrenn is a sentientist,[8] an abolitionist vegan, and a feminist. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016)[9] and Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019).