Bathsheba Demuth

“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.” An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love #envhist #rivers www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Is it too early for #hatm about this film @herberthistory.bsky.social ?

What I did this weekend was watch You Can See Everything twice and think about it nonstop the rest of the time.

Interesting paper on a 13,000+ year old dwelling — including cooking infrastructure — found southeast of Fairbanks. It might include the oldest known evidence of domestic dogs in North America. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Anyone need a genuinely *nice* story for this Wednesday? "Takahashi thought the lost barrel might be adrift somewhere on the Bering Sea by now. Or, he imagined an 'Alaskan bear wearing my down jacket or like, playing my flute...'"

Today in whale news: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Being in this role has already been exciting — keep the proposals coming!

We are thrilled to announce Bathsheba Demuth as the new series editor of Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, succeeding Paul S. Sutter. We’re grateful to Paul for 12 years of extraordinary leadership and excited to see Bathsheba carry the series into its next chapter! @brdemuth.bsky.social

“I find myself in the middle of translation, of overlapping colonial and anticolonial projects, as well as the learning of new/old languages. The Blind Man and the Loon illuminates the labors of language and the promise of story” A @sprucehen.bsky.social stunner placesjournal.org/article/blin...

Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum

Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum

Not a novel observation, but digging back into research full time is a real reminder that internet searching has deteriorated so much. My kingdom for Google circa 2014.

I have seen & learned & felt so many things this summer, including watching more black bears along the Yukon River than I can remember ever encountering before.

Great review of a book I devoured in a few days 📚

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Storm brewing on a Yukon River side channel in the delta — and some expert boating.

Excited to announce the (very swiftly) upcoming tour dates for the East Coast leg of my book tour! Can't wait to talk with all of these brilliant folks—including @brdemuth.bsky.social and @sandyernestallen.bsky.social—about tree-climbing and 'tree-thinking'.

absolute stunner from @brdemuth.bsky.social on greenland + american empire; i was today years old when i learned grandpapa trump got his start as an extremely-used-horse salesman in the arctic www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Demuth has become one of the essential historians.

Back from an amazing week on the lower Yukon River and the Bering Sea, with so much dancing and talking and boating and sunshine and rain and even a few summer chum salmon from the test fishery. Many thanks to the people of Emmonak, St Mary’s, and Pilot Station for the welcome

Well this is just bloody brilliant from @brdemuth.bsky.social on American empire and the Arctic. Was gob-smacked to read that 40% of US territory was purchased. Totally shifts the context for trying to buy Greenland. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

On the long American tradition of buying sovereignty, Greenland, colonialism, an AI penguin, and the grimy history of the president’s grandfather in the far north www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Look what book is now *available* for preorder!! @rebecca-altman.bsky.social’s SONG OF STYRENE coming next April. Important and gorgeous. Also that cover!! #envhist #envhum #plastics www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-So...

Great bookmail to return home to! @robertmoor.com’s newest — and I’m very much anticipating discussing this gorgeous work with him on July 12 at RiffRaff in Providence 🌳🪾🌲

Great bookmail to return home to! @robertmoor.com’s newest — and I’m very much anticipating discussing this gorgeous work with him on July 12 at RiffRaff in Providence 🌳🪾🌲

A gorgeous and exacting piece by Max Liboiron, on plastics and science and birds and much more placesjournal.org/article/thro...

Hi pals! I've got something I'm REALLY excited about in the works... I'll be editing a nonfiction anthology about the Yukon River. Timelines are tight so I'm mostly seeking out existing work (in your publication archive, sitting on your hard drive...) Please submit / share! forms.gle/Q622LYHExe7x...

Fox hunting on the banks of the Yukon in Whitehorse this morning

En voilà un excellent article. La thèse ? Arrêtons avec « agentivité » à toutes les sauces en histoire environnementale et intéressons nous plutôt à la continuité : «  rien n’est peut-être plus radical que d’identifier dans le passé les conditions nécessaires à la continuité. »

An exceptional Alaska lit mail day! I’m heading to #AWP26 (my first AWP!) later this week, and am very excited about my travel reading.

Midway through the three feet of snow that came to Providence in the last 24 hours, overtaking the Blizzard of ‘78 record. My

The world is so very bad, but this week we hung in our house a tapestry my mother wove, my father made the wooden hanger for with salmon-shaped hardware my brother cast out of copper, based on a photo I made on the middle fork of the Koyukuk River. It feels like the confluence of many homes.

"Industry, for the growing European middle classes, first meant freedom from want—from the real tyrannies of hunger and cold—and then freedom to want. Consumption itself became a kind of liberty." Beautifully about Svalbard and the world by @brdemuth.bsky.social hakaimagazine.com/features/foo...

"Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait" by @brdemuth.bsky.social, Dean's Associate Professor at IBES and @brownhist.bsky.social, has been selected as the 2025-2026 Brown University Book Award 📕🏆 👏 Learn more: insite.browntextbook.com/BrownBookAward

I can endorse working with @greenleejw.bsky.social for maps if you’re looking! He helped with a whole series of custom maps for an edited volume on rivers coming out in about a year — all sorts of scales and details

“I heard her say, ‘The love is there. The love is there. The love is there. Babe, the love is there. The love is there. The love is there.’” - Laureli Ivanoff

Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska Saa Dzé’edeex Dé’ "Winter Solstice"; literary when the sun divides Wunenh Nach’ehjedh "December" Nach’imbâal Dzeen "Christmas"; refers to an old custom of giving/receiving gifts at the darkest time of year. Dzeen Chox "Christmas" post-gold rush term

I feel like this is the nightmare we all dread in the US — an active shooter in your community. Brown University is still in shelter in place 3 hours in, with 2 confirmed deaths, 8 in critical condition, and no shooter(s) in custody. One of my students had to run from the scene. Horrified.

Thank you for all the suggestions in the replies! It’s really expanded this syllabus-in-progress

"Rivers are messy: Beyond the water bias in research and management" — A new article co-authored by @brdemuth.bsky.social combines historical and natural science ways of thinking about rivers to argue for the importance of understanding them as more than simply channels of water.

Favorite recent or classic readings on the history of environmental movements, 19th and 20th C? This is for a senior seminar, US and Europe as geographical focus #envhist

This pretty much sums up why I’m reviving the plan B’s I had in grad school. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

A lovely piece on the Greenlandic photographer Inuuteq Storch, who has such an eye for movement and light and what lies beneath surfaces www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

A reminder of late summer from doing much overdue photo backups today. Caribou bull in west Denali National Park. Tundra about to turn, velvet about to shed.

I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery @umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!

Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I’m so excited and honored for this upcoming talk & events at Oxford, some with an amazing lineup of other Arctic folks!