Bathsheba Demuth is an Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, where she teaches environmental history and writing and is a co-founder of Environmental Humanities at Brown. Her multiple-prize winning first book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait was a New York Times editors pick, and named a best book of 2019 by Nature, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and others. She writes regularly for non-academic outlets on environmental topics, including Granta, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and has selections in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Travel Writing. Demuth holds a BD and MA from Brown University, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a current Carnegie Fellow, working on an environmental history of the Yukon River from colonization to climate change.
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