Richard Samuel Deese

Faculty Associate
Faculty Research Fellow (2018-2021)
Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences, College of General Studies
rsdeese@bu.edu

Education

BA, University of California, Berkeley; MA, University of Oregon; MA, Boston University; PhD, Boston University

Expertise

Twentieth century world history, Cold War technologies, global environmentalism

Biography

Richard Samuel Deese is a Senior Lecturer for the Division of Social Sciences at Boston University. He is the author of We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of Our Species (2015), Surf Music (2017), and Climate Change and the Future of Democracy (2019). His research interests include the history of science, global environmentalism, and transnational democratic movements since the end of World War Two.