Susan Nance is professor of history at the University of Guelph and affiliated faculty with the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare. She is author of three books, including Rodeo: An Animal History (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). She is also editor of two books, including The Historical Animal (Syracuse University Press, 2015). Her website is www.susannance.com.