Across seven projects, IBES faculty researchers are taking environmental research beyond campus and into the field, working alongside communities while opening new doors for undergraduates to participate.
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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
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University of Washington Press Blog
Bathsheba Demuth Joins Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books at UW Press as Series Editor
Associate Professor of History & Environment and Society Bathsheba Demuth succeeds Paul S. Sutter, who led the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series since 2014.
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Brown Bookstore
2025-2026 Brown University Book Award
"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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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
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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