Colin Jerolmack is Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology. His interests include human-animal relations, resource dilemmas, community, qualitative research methods, and health. His first book, The Global Pigeon (University of Chicago Press, 2013), was a comparative ethnography of how human-animal relations shape urban life. His second book, Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town (Princeton University Press, 2021) is an ethnographic study of how shale gas extraction (fracking) transforms rural community life. He’s also researched and written about zoonotic disease transmission and is currently researching how social scientists and animal ethologists compare patterns of communication and interaction across species.