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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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Bathsheba Demuth
Dean's Associate Professor of Environment and Society & History
Research Interests
Environmental history, Russian & North American Arctic, Climate, Energy
Recent News
The Brown Daily Herald
Brown professor’s recent book explores the gloomy side of solar panels
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
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
Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.
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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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Los Angeles Review of Books
The Teeming Earth
IBES and History Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth reviewed Ferris Jabr’s “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.”
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