Micha? Piotr Pr?gowski received his PhD in sociology from the University of Warsaw, Poland in 2008 and works as an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology. He also is a Fulbright grantee in the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program. Pr?gowski’s academic specialties are sociology of norms and values, and human-animal studies. His current research projects include social construction of dogs ... Read morein the contemporary West, especially their naming and training, as well as social practices of commemorating companion animals. Justyna W?odarczyk received her PhD in American literature from the University of Warsaw, Poland. She currently works as an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland where she teaches courses in literary theory and cultural studies. She is an alumnus of the Fulbright Program. Her current research project concerns the history of discourses of animal training read through a biopolitical framework. Show Less