Nabaparna Ghosh

Nabaparna Ghosh is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Babson College. Her research lies at the intersection of urban history, environmental humanities, and Dalit studies, with a focus on caste, ecology, and colonial knowledge systems.
Her current book project, Between Land and Water: A Caste History of Sundarban's Beels, analyzes environmental governance in the nineteenth-century Sundarban delta through the lived experiences and knowledge practices of Dalit individuals. Drawing on visual archives such as scroll paintings and oral histories rooted in vernacular epistemologies, the book examines counter-cartographic practices as insurgent forms of knowledge production.

Ghosh's first book, A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2020) The book was the first academic study to examine how quotidian urban formations in the colonial city both informed and were simultaneously shaped by the global forces of imperialism, nationalism, and urbanism. It traced the emergence of a discourse on Hindu spatial hygiene that underwrote nationalist pedagogic efforts to discipline city dwellers and cultivate conduct deemed appropriate for dwelling in a city deeply segregated by religion and caste.

Ghosh is interested in teaching and advising on topics in urban and environmental studies.