Mullin, Molly

Molly Mullin is a visiting scholar at Duke University (North Carolina) in the Department of Cultural Anthropology. Previously, she was Professor of Anthropology at Albion College, where she began teaching courses on the anthropology of animals in 1997 while researching connections between art patronage and animal breeding, as discussed in the epilogue to her book, Culture in the Marketplace (2001). Her subsequent research has focused on animals as commodities and in relation to consumerism and anti-consumerism as well as on the cultural politics of domestication. To the volume Where the Wild Things are Now: Domestication Reconsidered (2007), which she co-edited with Rebecca Cassidy, she contributed a paper on the pet food industry. Mullin is currently writing a book about urban and backyard chickens, and a memoir on animals and anthropology.