Prof. Horowitz is the Senior Research Fellow in the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College in New York, and is also an Associate Professor in Psychology and English. Along with being a dog-cognition expert, she is the author of many academic journal articles and several books including, The Year of the Puppy – How Dogs Become Themselves (Viking, 2022) and Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (Scribner’s, 2009). In addition to writing books, she hosts a podcast Off Leash on the Freakonomics Radio Network.

This lecture is also part of the Steiner Lecture Series. The Andrew Steiner Memorial Lecture fund was created by the family and friends of Mr. Steiner, an alumnus (class of 1963) of St. John’s College, Annapolis. It was established to attract scholars from different disciplines and worlds, recognizing Andrew’s great intellectual versatility.