Adjunct faculty
Kramer is a historian of animal protection movements in England and the U.S., focused on what motivated people to care about animal cruelty, important conflicts that emerged within the movement over strategy and approach, what animals were generally selected for protection and why, and how the rise of animal rights philosophy impacted the movements. She is an expert on the history of animal experimentation, vegetarianism, fox-hunting and other animal sports, as well as the history of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals (RSPCA), the American SPCA (ASPCA), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the Hunt Saboteurs Association, and the Animal Liberation Front, and other organizations.