Participant Info
- First Name
- Bathsheba
- Last Name
- Demuth
- Country
- United States
- State
- RI Rhode Island
- Bathsheba_demuth@brown.edu
- Affiliation
- Brown University
- Website URL
- www.brdemuth.com
- Keywords
- Environmental History, Arctic, Russian/Soviet History, United States History, Native American/ Indigenous History, energy, climate change, marine history, animal studies, Pacific World
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. My interest in northern environments and cultures began when I was 18 and moved to the Village of Old Crow in the Yukon. For over two years, I mushed huskies, hunted caribou, fished for salmon, tracked bears, and otherwise learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. In the years since, I have lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America. From the archive to the dog sled, I am interested in the how the histories of people, ideas, places, and non-human species intersect.
- Recent Publications
“Grounding Capitalism: Geology, Labor, and the Nome Gold Rush,” chapter in A Global History of the Gold Rushes, eds. Stephen Tuffnell and Benjamin Mountford (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming fall 2018)
“More Things on Heaven and Earth: Modernism and Reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska,” chapter in Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments, eds. Dolly Jørgensen and Sverker Sörlin (Victoria: University of British Columbia Press, 2013)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Russia, United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Pacific, Russia, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Environment, Indigenous Peoples
