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Elizabeth Baker Brite

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2008
Eurasian Exchange NetworksArchaeology and ancient environmental studiesRangeland Management and Livestock EcologySoviet and Russian HistoryTransboundary Water Resource Management

Publications

25

Citations

227

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2008

Research summary
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Elizabeth Baker Brite is an archaeologist studying the human and environmental history of Central Asia, especially the Khorezm oasis region in present-day Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan. Her work combines archaeology, environmental history, and political ecology to examine how ancient and more recent societies managed irrigation, agriculture, and herding in arid landscapes, and how these practices were shaped by empires (from ancient trade routes to the Soviet era). She also writes on climate change's role in world history and on teaching approaches related to the Anthropocene (the current era of major human impact on Earth's systems).

Central Asian archaeology and irrigation historyAgro-pastoralism and ancient agriculturePolitical ecology of water managementSoviet-era environmental and infrastructural historyAnthropocene studies and pedagogy

Publication output has been uneven over the past decade, with clusters of activity in 2017, 2021-2022, and 2024-2026 separated by quieter years, averaging under two publications per year recently.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
2017: 4 publications4172018: 1 publication182019: 1 publication19202021: 2 publications212022: 2 publications22232024: 4 publications424252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Anthropocenes – Human Inhuman Posthuman×3
  • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology×2
  • Journal of Political Ecology×2
  • Berghahn Books×2
  • Antiquity×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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