Welcome

I am a professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology, and with the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. I am also a founding member of the Animal and Interpersonal Abuse Research Group. My areas of expertise include green criminology, (critical) animal studies, environmental sociology, and gender studies.

Recent awards received include the Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Mid-Career Scholars/Researchers, University of Windsor. I was also a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Animal Law and Public Policy Program (2020).

I am currently working on three grant-funded projects: (1) “The intersection of violence against women and animals in Canadian homes: Developing much-needed research informed programs and policies” (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant; Fitzgerald, Barrett, Fritz, McPhee, Stevenson); (2) “Analysis of Public Investment in Animal Cruelty
Investigation Work” (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant; Coulter and Fitzgerald); (3) “Environmental DNA (“eDNA”), metabarcoding and transcriptional profiling to improve sustainability of freshwater fisheries and fish culture” (Genome Canada; Heath et. al.).

Please see the Research tab for a list of recent publications, the Teaching tab for a list of courses I teach and graduate students I have supervised, and the Recent Presentations tab for a list of the most recent presentations I have delivered.

If you would like more specific information about the Animal and Interpersonal Abuse Research Group, please see http://www.uwindsor.ca/aipabuseresearchgroup/

If you are interested in the programs offered in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, please see http://www.uwindsor.ca/sociology/

To contact me directly, please send an email to afitz@uwindsor.ca