Specialization:
Ethical issues and the relationships between humans and other animal species
Education:
M.A. and PhD (Classics), University of California,, Berkeley; B.A. (Hon.), University of Manitoba
Bio:
Dr. Shelton has taught at UCSB for 40 years, in the Environmental Studies Program and the Department of Classics. She was Chair of the Environmental Studies Program 1997 - 2001. Her research interests include the history and ethics of human relationships with other animal species.
Publications:
“Beastly Spectacles in the Ancient Mediterranean World,” in A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity (Berg 2007), pp. 97-126.
“Exotic Species,” in The Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships (Greenwood 2007),pp. 345-352.
“Elephants as Enemies in Ancient Rome.” Concentric 32 (2006),pp. 3-25.
“Dancing and Dying: The Display of Elephants in Ancient Roman Arenas,” in Daimonopylai (University of Manitoba Press 2004), pp. 363-382.
“The Contributions of Ancient Greek Philosophy to the Modern Debate about Animal Use,” in Ancient Greece and the Modern World (University of Patras Press, 1998), pp. 85-93.
“Contracts with Animals: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura.” Between the Species 11 (1995), pp. 115-121.
Courses:
Environmental Studies 146, Animals in Human Society