Dr. Bathsheba Demuth

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Bathsheba R. Demuth is an environmental historian specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern environments and cultures began at the age of 18 when she moved north of the Arctic Circle into the Yukon. Over the years, she has engaged in various activities such as dog sledding, hunting caribou, fishing for salmon, and tracking bears, all while learning to survive in the taiga and tundra. Bathsheba has lived and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America, focusing on the archival histories where people, ideas, places, and non-human species intersect. As a Dean’s Associate Professor at Brown University, she leads the Native American Indigenous Studies Initiative and actively contributes to a deeper understanding of environmental history.

Research Interests

Awards

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Theodore C. Blegen Award

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Berkshire Conference Women Historians Award Article

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Stuart Bernath Article Prize

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George Perkins Marsh Prize

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U.C. Berkeley Friends of Cal Award

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Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies National Graduate Student Essay Prize

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U.C. Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

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Guervich Prize

Courses

ENVS 0710 - Powering Past: Environmental Histories Energy Use and Social Change ENVS 1905 - Thinking Elements: Environmental Theories and Praxis ENVS 1910 - Anthropocene: Past and Present Environmental Change ENVS 1911 - Narrating the Anthropocene HIST 0270B - Columbian Exchange and Climate Change: Modern Global Environmental History HIST 0576A - Arctic: A Global History of Dog Sleds and Oil Rigs HIST 1573 - Energy and Power: Environmental History of North America HIST 1820C - Sovereignty and Ecology: Law, Land, and Environmental Change HIST 2940 - Writing Workshop HIST 2971W - Readings in Environmental History HMAN 2400I - Environmental Humanities

Requirements for Brown University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in Economics or related field
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Specialization Notes

Department: Department of Economics