Scholars
Laura A Henry
Bowdoin College
Based in
United States
North America
Laura Henry’s research investigates Russia’s environmental and climate politics in Russia, looking at civic activism, extraction, and transnationalism. Recent research compares BRICS states’ participation in global governance, including climate, and the local effects of extraction in the Arctic. Henry is the co-author of Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in BRICS States (with Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Oxford University Press, 2021), the author of Red to Green: Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, 2010) and the co-editor of Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment (M.E. Sharpe, 2006). Her work has appeared in Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Environmental Politics, and Global Environmental Politics, among other journals. She has been a Watson Foundation fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.
Country(ies) of Specialty
RussiaFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Fossil fuels Indigenous studies Social movementsPublications
Articles
Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in BRICS States, (co-authored with Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom), Oxford University Press, 2021.
Javeline, R. Orttung, G. Robertson, R. Arnold, A. Barnes, L. Henry, E. Holland, M. Omelicheva, P Rutland, E. Schatz, C. Schenk, A. Semenov, V. Sperling, L. McIntosh Sundstrom, M. Troitskiy, J. Twigg, & S. Wengle, “Russia in a Changing Climate,” WIREs Climate Change,15(2) (2023): e872.
Maria Tysiachnkiouk, Laura A. Henry, and Leah Horowitz, “Global Standards, Corporate Diagrams, and Indigenous Agency: ExxonMobil in Russia and Alaska,” Arctic Review on Law and Politics 13 (2022): 1-31.
Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, “Changing Climates in Russia and China: NGOs and Transcalar Climate Advocacy in Authoritarian States,” pp. 159-173. In Christopher L. Pallas and Elizabeth Bloodgood, eds., Beyond the Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics, University of Alabama Press, 2022.
Laura A. Henry and Elizabeth Plantan, “Activism in Exile: How Russian Environmentalists Maintain Voice After Exit,” Post-Soviet Affairs 38, 4 (2022): 274-292.
Svetlana Tulaeva, Maria Tysiachniouk, Laura A. Henry, and Leah S. Horowitz, “Globalizing Extraction and Indigenous Rights in the Russian Arctic: The Enduring Role of the State in Natural Resource Governance,” Resources 8, 4 (2019).
Laura A. Henry, Soili Nysten-Haarala, Svetlana Tulaeva, and Maria Tysiachniouk, “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Oil Industry in the Russian Arctic: Global Norms and Neo-Paternalism,” Europe-Asia Studies 68, 8 (2016): 1340-1368.