Anthony J. Nocella II

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., international award-winning author, administrator, professor and public intellectual in the areas of criminology, sociology, juvenile justice, social justice, and environmental justice, is Editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, and National Co-Coordinator of Save the Kids. Dr. Nocella II is the Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Institute for Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. Dr. Nocella II is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He is the Co-editor of the Critical Animal Studies and Theory book series with Lexington Books and Editor of the Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation book series with Peter Lang books. Nocella is also the director of the Academy for Peace Education. Nocella works in the fields of education, justice, criminology, policy, and peace and conflict studies. He is internationally known for his innovative, transformative, and intersectional collaborations among fields of study, organizations, scholars, and communities. Dr. Nocella has published more than fifty scholarly articles or book chapters and over forty books with over fifteen different publishers. His work has been translated in Spanish, Russian, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He co-founded more than ten active socio-political organizations and serves on four boards. He has co-founded four journals - Transformative Justice Journal, Green Theory and Praxis, Peace Studies Journal, and Journal of Critical Animal Studies, is on the editorial board of three other journals, and has published more than twenty books. Dr. Nocella has guest lectured, provided professional development trainings, and facilitated workshops to hundreds of school districts, universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools and many prisons, jails, and detention facilities around the Americas, such as Onondaga County School District, St. Cloud School District, Hillbrook Youth Detention Facility, Auburn Prison, Attica Prison, Five Points Prison, Environmental Protection Agency, Brock University, UCLA, Hofstra University, New York University Law School, Rutgers University Law School, Boston College, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, University of Texas, Yale University, and Princeton University. More about Dr. Nocella at: www.anthonynocella.org Contact him directly for speaking engagements or media interviews at: nocellat@yahoo.com