Bathsheba Demuth

Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

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Bathsheba Demuth

Dean's Associate Professor of Environment and Society & History

bathsheba_demuth@brown.edu

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Research Interests Environmental history, Russian & North American Arctic, Climate, Energy

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2025-2026 Brown University Book Award

February 2, 2026

"Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait" by IBES and History Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth has been selected as the 2025-2026 Brown University Book Award.

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News from IBES

WATCH | “Subjects of the Sun”: Rethinking solar justice with Myles Lennon

October 27, 2025

During an October 18 book talk, Assistant Professor Myles Lennon challenged audiences to see solar energy as not only a climate solution, but a reflection of deeper social and economic inequities.

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The Brown Daily Herald

Brown professor’s recent book explores the gloomy side of solar panels

October 2, 2025

Assistant Professor Myles Lennon published his first book, “Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism,” over the summer.

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The New York Review of Books

Where the Dogs Run

August 15, 2025

Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth penned this essay, which poignantly describes how declining salmon populations threaten the future of the Yukon River and its surrounding communities.

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News from IBES

Summer reads from IBES scholars

July 15, 2025

Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.

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Public Books

Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic

July 10, 2025

A conversation with Bathsheba Demuth, associate professor in IBES and the Department of History, about her first book and forthcoming writing.

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