Nabaparna Ghosh is a historian of modern South Asia. Her teaching and research interests focus on the multiple meanings of urban modernity, empire and colonialism, colonial and postcolonial cities, caste and urban space, and histories of environmental transformations.

Professor Ghosh's book, A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in colonial Calcutta( Cambridge University Press, 2020) goes beyond town plans and maps to explore how caste and kinship ties configured urban space in South Asia, crafting areas of self-government within colonial town plans.

Professor Ghosh is currently working on her second book, which explores oral archives of the Sunderban delta. The book examines indigenous understandings of nature and human-non-human relations, as well as how these understandings clashed with colonial attempts to demarcate wilderness areas.

Professor Ghosh graduated from Presidency College, Kolkata, and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she won the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Dissertation Completion fellowship. She has taught at the University of Virginia and also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow of History at The Cooper Union, New York, before joining Babson College.