Professor
Undergraduate Coordinator
- Social Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Religion and Politics in Latin America
Anna Peterson is a professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School and her AB from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on religion and social change, especially in Latin America; environmental and social ethics; and animal studies. She has published a number of articles, chapters, and book in these areas. Her current research analyzes the role of religion in movements for social change. She is also involved in several collaborative research projects exploring the ethical challenges presented by climate change.
Recent books
- Works Righteousness: Material Practice in Ethical Theory. Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Cats and Conservationists: The Debate over Who Owns the Outdoors, with Dara Wald. Purdue University Press, 2020.
- Religion and Ecological Crisis: The “Lynn White Thesis” at 50. Co-edited with Todd
LeVasseur. New York: Routledge, 2016. - Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics. Columbia University Press, 2013.
- With Charles Kibert, Martha Monroe, Richard Plate, and Leslie Paul Thiele. Working Toward Sustainability: Ethical Decision Making in a Technological World. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2011.
Recent awards
- Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, elected March 2020
- CLAS Term Professorship, 2021-2024
- Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor, 2012-13.
- University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, 2009-2011.
- National Science Foundation. Co-PI, with Charles Kibert (PI), Martha Monroe, and Les Thiele. “Teaching the Ethics of Sustainability.” 2008-2010.