Kate Pride Brown
Assistant Professor
- School of History and Sociology
Overview
Kate Pride Brown is an environmental and political sociologist whose research focuses on a range of issues, including environmental activism in Russia and conservation policy in the United States. She received her doctorate from Vanderbilt University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Her book, Saving the Sacred Sea: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines the conflict between local and transnational environmentalists, multinational corporations, and the Russian government over the future of Lake Baikal, the largest, deepest and oldest freshwater lake on Earth. While she continues to study environmental issues in Russia, especially around Lake Baikal, Dr. Brown has also published reseach on water and energy politics and policy in the United States. She is currently studying the "nuclear renaissance" in the southeastern United States. Among other honors, she has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, and funding from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Her research has appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Energy Research and Social Science, Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology, Ethnography, Memory Studies, Nature and Culture, Research in Political Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, Water Policy and WIREs Water.
- PhD in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
- MA in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
- BA in Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
Interests
- Agriculture, Health, and the Environment
- Energy, Climate and Environmental Policy
- U.S. Society and Politics/Policy Perspectives
Focuses:
- Europe
- United States
- Energy
- Environment
- Globalization and Localization
- Governance
- History and Memory
- Modernity
- Politics
- Social Movements
- Sustainability
Courses
- HTS-3055: Globalization Modern Era
- HTS-3102: Social Theory&Structure
- HTS-6001: Proseminar-Social Theory
- SOC-1101: Intro to Sociology
Selected Publications
Books
- Saving the Sacred Sea: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization
Date: 2018
Journal Articles
- Human Impact and Ecosystemic Health at Lake Baikal
In: WIREs Water [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- Rumor Has It: Strategies for Ethnographic Analysis in Authoritarian Regimes
In: Ethnography [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- Multilevel Governance and Minimum Flow: The Varying Conservation Outcomes of Water Conflict Resolution
In: Research in Political Sociology: Environment Politics and Society [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- Green tea: clean-energy conservatism as a countermovement
In: Environmental Sociology [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- In the pocket: energy regulation, industry capture, and campaign spending
In: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- Water, Water Everywhere (or, Seeing Is Believing): The Visibility of Water Supply and the Public Will for Conservation
In: Nature and Culture [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation
In: Environmental Politics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
- The prospectus of activism: discerning and delimiting imagined possibility
In: Social Movement Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Human Impact and Ecosystemic Health at Lake Baikal
In: WIREs Water [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021