{"id":35947,"date":"2019-02-13T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&p=35947"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:48:48","slug":"richard-samuel-deese","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/richard-samuel-deese\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Samuel Deese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Twentieth century world history<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Cold War technologies and global environmentalism<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Books<\/h4>\n

\"We<\/a>\u00a0\"Surf\"\"<\/p>\n

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How Democracy Survives.<\/a> Co-edited with Michael Holm. Routledge, 2023.<\/p>\n

Climate Change and the Future of Democracy<\/em><\/a>. Springer, 2018.<\/p>\n

Surf Music<\/em><\/a>. Pelekinesis Press, 2017.<\/u1:p><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

We Are Amphibians: Julian &\u00a0Aldous Huxley\u00a0on the Future of Our Species<\/em><\/a>. University of California Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

Book Chapters<\/h4>\n

\u201cDemocracy and the Spectacle of Consent: The Forgotten Promise of the United Nations\u201d in\u00a0<\/span>How Democracy Survives: Global Challenges in the Anthropocene<\/i>. Routledge, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBetween Progress and Armageddon: The Stakes of Our Times\u201d in\u00a0Posthumanism<\/em>. Michael Bess, ed. Cengage,\u00a02018.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Ecology of Power: Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War Era\u201d in\u00a0Environmental Histories of the Cold War<\/em>. J. R. McNeill and Corinna Unger, eds. Cambridge University Press, \u00a02010, Pages 279-300.<\/p>\n

Articles<\/h4>\n

\u201cGlobal poll: 84% believe it is important to have democracy\u201d<\/a> Democracy Without Borders<\/em>, June 1st, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cEinstein Was Right: We Must Democratize the UN\u201d<\/a> Democracy Without Borders<\/em>,<\/span> May 25th, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gospel of Eve: Francis Bacon, Genesis, and the Telos of Modern Science\u201d November, 2017. Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture 11(4):435-454<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond Brave New World: The Post-Huxleyan Feminism of Elisabeth Mann Borgese\u201d 2017. Aldous Huxley Annual 17: 215-226.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom World War to World Law: Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea\u201d Fall, 2016 . World History Bulletin. XXXII (2): 5-9<\/p>\n

\u201cSustainable Development.\u201d in Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Relations. Ed. Cathal Nolan. New York: Oxford University Press, January 2011.\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.oup.com\/online\/us\/obo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Ecology of Power: Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War Era\u201d in Environmental Histories of the Cold War. J. R. McNeill and Corinna Unger, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2010, Pages 279-300.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching History with Blogs \u2013 A Case Study of Student Engagement.\u201d Kumar, S. & Deese, R. S.\u00a0 In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2010 (pp. 2011-2016). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.editlib.org\/p\/34916<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Artifact of Nature: \u2018Spaceship Earth\u2019 and the dawn of global environmentalism\u201d Endeavour, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 70-75.<\/p>\n

Editorial
\n<\/b><\/em><\/h4>\n

Guest Editor,\u00a0Sustainability,\u00a0<\/i>May 18th, 2012.\u00a0 Special Issue: \u201cTragedy or Transcendence\u201d Reflections on \u2018The Tragedy of the Commons.’\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/sustainability\/special_issues\/tragedy_transcendence<\/a><\/p>\n

Encyclopedia Articles<\/h4>\n

\u201cThe Anthropocene\u201d in The Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy. Daniel J. Fiorino, Todd A. Eisenstadt, et al., eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.<\/p>\n

Conference Papers<\/h4>\n

\u201cPopulism is Not the Problem: The Nationalist Roots of Authoritarianism.\u201d Fulbright Canada Colloquium on Contemporary Challenges to Democracy and Democratic Institutions at University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa. October 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocracy and the Spectacle of Consent.\u201d Symposium on \u201cHow Democracy Survives: the Crises of the Nation State.\u201d Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. October 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate Change and the Future of Democracy.\u201d Keynote Address to Center for UN Constitutional Research Climate Justice III Conference. Corfu, Greece. July 2019.<\/p>\n

“Beyond Brave New World: The Post-Huxleyan Feminism of Elisabeth Mann Borgese.” Keynote Address to Sixth Annual Aldous Huxley Society Symposium. University of Almer\u00eda, Spain. April 2017.<\/p>\n

Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ismael Sensel Award<\/strong>,\u00a02020.\u00a0College of General Studies at Boston University.<\/p>\n

Affiliated Faculty<\/strong>, Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston University<\/p>\n

Faculty Research Fellow<\/strong>,\u00a02018-2021Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University<\/p>\n

Excellence in Teaching Award Nominee<\/strong>, Northeastern University, Spring 2011.<\/p>\n

Humanities Foundation Award<\/strong>, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 2007.<\/p>\n

Engelbourg Travel Fellowship<\/strong>, Boston University Department of History, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47875,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35947\/revisions\/47875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}