Vail Fletcher will present her trajectory as a researcher-scholar-nonhuman animal living at the end of the world. She walks us through her journey to conduct mixed methods research in the hollers of West Virginia to the high desert Navajo reservation of New Mexico, the Dog Meat Trade and Zoos of Beijing, China, to the predator-free campaign in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond. What does it mean to be alive and paying attention? To intently study the aliveness of the human and more-than human world? The role of the academy and higher education will be centered alongside grief and curiosity as bolt holes in our labor.
