Katja M. Guenther is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside (USA). Her central areas of research and advocacy center on feminist politics and the intersections of structural inequalities such as gender, species, dis/ability, and race. She has particular expertise in companion animal sheltering. Guenther is the author of the books The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals and Making Their Place: Feminism after Socialism in Eastern Germany. She is co-editor of When Animals Die: Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in venues such as Disability Studies Quarterly, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Gender & Society, Mobilization, Politics & Gender, Signs, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, and Women's Studies International Forum. She is currently working on research examining how two different types of cats—community (aka feral) cats and pumas—contribute to the understanding of place in Los Angeles. She holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.