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Bathsheba R Demuth is the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, directing the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative. Her research focuses on Arctic environments and Indigenous communities, particularly in the Russian and North American Arctic. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley (2016) and prior degrees from Brown University (BA/MA 2006/2007). Demuth’s work bridges environmental history, political ecology, and Indigenous studies, emphasizing intersectional analyses of capitalism, colonialism, and ecological change.
Her award-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) examines 200 years of resource extraction and governance in the Arctic, showing how Indigenous knowledge systems resisted capitalist and socialist exploitation. Demuth teaches courses on environmental humanities, energy histories, and Arctic sovereignty. She has received prestigious fellowships including the Andrew Carnegie (2020-22) and Mellon-ACLS (2015) awards.
Her research extends to walrus conservation, Soviet environmental policy, and contemporary climate impacts on Arctic communities. Demuth’s work appears in American Historical Review, Nature, and Emergence Magazine, with frequent media commentary in Atlantic, New Yorker, and CBC Radio. Current projects explore beaver-based restoration, permafrost science, and nonhuman agency in historical narratives.
