Kate McClellan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. Her research interests include human–animal relations, animal labor and the politics of care on both local and global scales. Ethnographic work in Jordan forms the basis for her current book project, If We Were Animals: Human–Animal Care and Comparison in Jordan, which explores the entanglement of human and animal care in social projects designed to improve human and animal lives together. Recent publications examine how animal welfare ethics shape colonial and postcolonial forms of life. Kate is also working on a project on the politics of Islamic environmental ethics that inform the revival of the hima system of communal land-use across the Middle East and beyond.