• Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Windsor

Amy Fitzgerald is a full professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, and holds a hybrid appointment with the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor. She is the 2023-2025 University of Windsor Vice-President's (Research and Innovation) Internal Research Chair. Her research focuses on the intersection of harms (criminal and otherwise) perpetrated against people, non-human animals, and the environment. She has published many peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books. Fitzgerald is a founding member of the Animal and Interpersonal Abuse Research Group, the recipient of a Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the Mid-Career Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the University of Windsor, and a two-time residential fellow in the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard University's Law School (in 2020 and 2024).

• 2020–present Professor, University of Windsor
• 2010–2020 Associate Professor, University of Windsor
• 2006–2010 Assistant Professor, University of Windsor

Amy Fitzgerald is recipient of a Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the Mid-Career Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the University of Windsor, has held two residential visiting fellowships in the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard University's Law School (2020 and 2024), and is currently a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

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