Looking for doctoral programs in Human-Animal Interaction, hopefully in the Midwest US

Thought I'd throw this out there.

I am looking to start work on my PhD and finally decided what field it ought to be in...I have a hard time focusing on one discipline, really.

We currently live near Chicago in mid-northern Indiana and don't want to move at all, but realize we'll have to.  So hoping it won't be a big move, because then there will be another, post-PhD move to the job....

I'm having a hard time navigating university websites, though, to find appropriate programs.  Silly me, I thought they'd be in Animal Sciences or something like that, but I finally found Purdue's HAI program and guess where?  In the Department of Comparative Pathobiology.  Uh...ok.

So any help from anybody with the knowing would be appreciated.  We're looking generally at MI, WI, IN, IL here.  Perhaps OH.

What a great subject to specialize in! You might contact the U.S. Humane Society. They are very much in favor of these programs and even offer courses themselves. Being a national organization, they should have a good idea of what's available out there.

I guess my question is what exactly do you want to be doing; where do you want all that studying, research, and writing to take you? I would find some people who are doing that, then talk to them about what they had to do to get there.

True, @SwampWitch.  I have some emails in to professors I've found that are doing what I'd like to do.  Just haven't heard back.

Not all professors are good at or even interested in their careers. You need to contact people who are actively doing the research and writing papers. Is this what you are interested in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology

I would contact some authors of recent scientific papers that interest you, not just the first authors, either.