Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

Blake Couey (Religion) presented a paper titled “Animal Cognition in the Book of Isaiah” at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver in November 2022. It is part of a larger project that explores the biblical book Isaiah through the interdisciplinary perspective of animal studies. He also had an article, “Hide the Outcasts: Isaiah 16:3-4 and Fugitive Slave Laws” (co-authored with Jeremy Schipper, University of Tornoto), in the fall issue of Harvard Theological Review.