Laura Henry


John F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor of Government

Spring 2011

  • NGOs in Politics (GOV 018)
  • The Politics of the European Union (GOV 225)
Phone (207) 725-3558
Title John F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor
Department Government
Work Location 18 Hubbard Hall
E-Mail lhenry@bowdoin.edu
Laura Henry

On leave for the 2011-12 academic year.

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Political Science. 2004
M.A. University of California, Berkeley. Political Science. 1996.
B.A. Wellesley College. Political Science/History. Magna cum laude, 1993.

Links

Academic Spotlight: 2009 Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty

Selected Publications

“Between Transnationalism and State Power: The Development of Russia’s Post-Soviet Environmental Movement,” Environmental Politics 19, 5 (2010): 756-781.

“Redefining the Common Good After Communism: Beyond Ideology” (with Kristen R. Ghodsee), NewsNet 50, 4 (August 2010): 1-7.

Red to Green: Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet RussiaRed to Green: Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.

“Russia and the Kyoto Protocol: From Hot Air to Implementation?” (with Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom), pp. 105-137. In Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Global Commons, Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.

“Redefining Citizenship in Russia: Political and Social Rights,” Problems of Post-Communism 56, 6 (November-December 2009): 51-65.

“Thinking Globally, Limited Locally: The Russian Environmental Movement and Sustainable Development.” In Julian Agyeman and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, eds., Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union , Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

“Environmental Issues in Russia” (co-authored with Vladimir Douhovnikoff), Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 33 (November 2008): 437-460.

“Russia and the Kyoto Protocol: Seeking an Alignment of Interests and Image” (co-authored with Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom), Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2007): 47-69.

“Russia and the Kyoto Protocol in Comparative Perspective” [Rossiia I Kiotskii Protokol v sravnitel’noi perspective] (co-authored with Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom). In Aleksandr Kosarikov, ed., Global Climate Treaties: Risks and Benefits for Russia, Moscow: Environmental Projects Consulting Institute, 2006. Available in English and Russian.

russian civil society“Shaping Social Activism in Post-Soviet Russia: Leadership, Organizational Diversity, and Innovation,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2006): 99-124.

"Introduction" and "Russian Civil Society: Tensions and Trajectories" (co-authored with Sundstrom). In Alfred Evans, Laura Henry, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Change and Continuity in Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

"Russian Environmentalists in Civil Society." In Alfred Evans, Laura Henry, and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Change and Continuity in Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

"Two Paths to a Greener Future: Environmentalism and Civil Society Development in Russia," Demokratizatsiya, Spring 2002, Vol. 10, No. 2: 184-206.