Bathsheba Rose Demuth[1] is an American environmental historian; she is the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.
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 pursued doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her PhD in history in 2016.
Demuth is best known for her book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait.
[5] Since 2022, she has been the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.