Editorial Team

Sloth Editorial Team

Gabriela Bezerra de Melo Daly (Managing Editor)

Luba Kozak (Copy Editor)

Luba Kozak is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Media, Arts, and Performance at the University of Regina, Canada. Her doctoral project explores the representation of exotic pet animals in eighteenth-century British portraiture as a way to ethically rethink human-animal relations through the lens of pet culture. Luba is an art historian, art-based researcher, internationally published scholar, and animal rights activist. She is a UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair Research Fellow (2023) with interdisciplinary research interests in early modern European art, literature, and philosophy; ethics and animal studies/vegan theory.

Amanda Daniela Cortez (Co-editor, Submissions Manager)

Sandy Burnley (Co-editor)

Dr. Sandy Burnley is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Integrative Studies at Michigan State University. Her research interests include the intersections of Animal, Indigenous, and Disability Studies. Her upcoming manuscript, Critical Entanglements: The Not-So-Silent Species of Victorian Fiction, examines what more-than-human animal companions may be saying beyond the authors’ intentions to build a more biodiverse ecosystem of empire. Dr. Burnley also works closely with Indigenous, animal-oriented, and enabling community partners to amplify the voices invested in this work and expand the classrooms’ borders from curriculum to collaboration.

Kristine Hill (Co-editor)

Dr. Kristine Hill earned her PhD in Anthrozoology from the University of Exeter in 2023. She is currently a research associate and member of an international research team project, funded by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové (FF UHK). Kris is a trustee of the Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS), a board member of the International Society of Anthrozoology (ISAZ), and founder of the Cat Academic Think Tank (eCATT). She also co-organises Anthrozoology as International Practice (AIP), an online student conference in Human-Animal Studies. Visit https://academiccatlady.com/ to learn more about Kris’ projects and interests

Michael Briscoe (Co-editor backup, Associate Editor)

Dr. Michael D. Briscoe is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University Pueblo. He is the author of the book Stocks or Stakeholders: The Benefits of Considering Animal Interests and has published research in a wide range of journals such as Society & Animals, The Sociological Quarterly, and Environmental Sociology, among others. He teaches courses on environmental sociology, One Welfare, and green criminology, including as part of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.

Kristie O'Neill (Associate Editor)

Candice Allmark-Kent (Associate Editor & Social Media Manager)

Dr. Candice Allmark-Kent is an independent scholar of literary animal studies with a strong interest in interdisciplinary methods. Her book, Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism (2023), was the first monograph on nonhuman animals in Canadian literature. It introduced new approaches to literary animal studies by incorporating histories of science, conservation, and animal law into literary analysis. With a passion for improving how we speak on behalf of other species, her expertise in animal representation spans a variety of forms, from 19th-century animal biographies to 21st-century video games. Candice received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Exeter (UK), where she also taught American, British, and Irish literature.

Arturo Luna Loranca (Associate Editor)

Arturo Luna Loranca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, History, and International Studies at Hampton University. His areas of expertise include human-animal relations, colonial Latin America, and urban history. His research has been published in Sobre España en el largo siglo XVIII (2022), Histórica (2022), Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (2024), and Colonial Latin American Review (2025).
Candice Allmark-Kent (Associate Editor + Social Media Manager)

Shruti Ragavan (Associate Editor)

Shruti Ragavan is a PhD Scholar with the Urban Ecologies Project at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India. Her research situated at the intersection of (southern) urban theory and more-than-human geographies explores the naturecultures and politics of bovines in urban India. Her research interests lie within the ambit of urban ecologies, human-animal relations, and agrarian-urbanisms. Shruti is an Associate Editor (Social Sciences) for Sloth journal.

Sayantan Das (Associate Editor)

Dr. Sayantan Das is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Kannur University, India. His core research interests are in animal sciences, especially behavior, ecology, cognition and conservation. Depending on the requirements of the research question, Sayantan moves across the various levels of organization, from an individual to an ecosystem. He also studies animal emotions, animal welfare, direct (urbanization) and indirect impacts (climate change) of humans on animals, and animal folktales.