Brianne Donaldson

Associate Professor, Religious Studies & Philosophy
Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies

University of California, Irvine

Brianne Donaldson explores how implicit metaphysical beliefs inform social inclusion and ethical action toward plants, animals, and marginalised people. She is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (2015), and Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (2021, co-authored with Ana Bajželj).

She is the editor of Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (2014), The Future of Meat Without Animals (2016; co-edited with Christopher Carter), and Feeling Animal Death: Being Host to Ghosts (2019; co-edited with Ashley King) and forthcoming Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies (Routledge 2024).