Nabaparna Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of Global Studies. Her teaching and research interests include modern South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), empire and colonialism, comparative cities, urban history, postcolonial politics, and economic growth with a focus on environment and sustainability in the global south.
Professor Ghosh's book, A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in colonial Calcutta( Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, June 2020) goes beyond town plans and maps to explore how kinship ties have configured urban space in South Asia, crafting areas of self-government within colonial town plans.
Professor Ghosh is also working on a research project that seeks to understand how climate change has impacted human and non-human lives in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta; this research traces the history of a fragile delta ecosystem and establishes climate as an agent of history.
Ghosh received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she won the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Dissertation Completion fellowship. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow of History at The Cooper Union, New York, before joining Babson College.