Richard Deese

Richard Samuel Deese, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Senior Lecturer for the Division of Social Sciences in the College of General Studies and at Boston University. He grew up in Claremont, California, and studied history at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Oregon, and Boston University. He has previously held teaching appointments at Nanjing University, Los Angeles City College, the University of California at Riverside, and Northeastern University. Deese is the author of We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of Our Species (2015), Surf Music (2017), Climate Change and the Future of Democracy (2019), The Mirror & the Monkey (2022), and the co-editor, with Michael Holm, of How Democracy Survives: Global Challenges in the Anthropocene. His research interests include the history of science, global environmentalism, and the evolution of democratic federalism across national borders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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