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Anna Peterson

Social ethicist at the University of Florida

Anna Peterson holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She teaches in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. She teaches and writes about social and environmental ethics. Her books include Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas (2005); Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World (2001); Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire (2009); and Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics (2013). She has also published numerous book chapters and journal articles. She lives with her family in Gainesville, Florida and rescues pit bulls in her spare time.