Laura A. Henry

Laura Henry teaches courses on contemporary Russian politics, Eastern Europe, the European Union, environmental politics, and social movements and civil society. Her research investigates Russia’s post-Soviet transformation, state-society relations, and environmental politics in Russia. Her recent research investigates BRICS states' participation in global governance on issues ranging from climate to HIV/AIDS. She is currently working on several projects related to natural resource 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. Her research has received support from the National Security Education Program, the Social Science Research Council, and the International Research and Exchange Board.