Bathsheba Demuth

Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian and Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.[1] She specializes in the study of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in this region was triggered when she moved north of the Arctic Circle in the Yukon, at the age of 18, and learned a wide range of survival skills in the taiga and tundra.

Demuth obtained her bachelors at Brown University and her doctorate at UC Berkeley. She is best known for her book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. The book was published in 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company and has won numerous awards, including the American Society for Environmental History's 2020 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book in environmental history and the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association for the best book in American history.[2] The book was also nominated for the Pushkin Book Prize.[3]