Dr. Kate Brown

Biography

Kate Pride Brown is an environmental political sociologist whose research focuses on a range of issues, including environmental activism in Russia and conservation policy in the United States. She received her doctorate from Vanderbilt University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Her book, "Saving Sacred Sea: Power Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization" (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines the conflict between local and transnational environmentalists, multinational corporations, and the Russian government regarding the future of Lake Baikal, the largest and deepest freshwater lake on Earth. Dr. Brown has published research on water and energy politics and policy in the United States. She has received numerous honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, as well as funding from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Her research has appeared in journals such as Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Energy Research and Social Science, and Environmental Politics.

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