David Alan Nibert is an American sociologist, writer and professor of Sociology at the Wittenberg University. He co-organized too the section "Animals and Society" organized in the American Sociological Association.
Nibert connects animal rights theory with other economic or sociological theories.
According to Nibert, speciesism is an ideology that seeks to legitimize animal slavery and, for this purpose, speciesism defends that is acceptable discriminate sentient beings depending on their specie.
In 2005 he received the "Award for Distinguished Scholarship" from the American Sociological Association.
Animal Rights/Human Rights. Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated. ISBN 0742517764 (0-7425-1776-4)
Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: State Governments and the Taxing of Dreams. Monthly Review Press. ISBN 1-58367-014-9
Selected articles
Consuming the Surplus: Expanding "Meat" Consumption and Animal Oppression. International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy. 24(9):76-96. With Bill Winders
Humans and other animals: sociology's moral and intellectual challenge. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. Year: 2003 Volume: 23 Issue: 3 pp. 4—25.