Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian with long term commitments in the Eurasian and North American Arctic. She is currently working with Alaska Native and First Nation communities in northwestern Canada and Alaska on research into how changes in sovereignty are intertwined with species loss and other environmental change in the Yukon River watershed. Her research and many of her courses center Indigenous epistemologies and histories, and regularly feature guest speakers, Elders, and knowledge keepers from the Arctic and subarctic to share their perspectives and expertise. In 2024-2025, she is the Interim Faculty Director of NAISI at Brown.