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Amrita DasGupta joined NiCHE as the New Scholars Representative in the Fall of 2025. She is pursuing a PhD from the Centre of Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research is focused on the gendered environmental history of the Indian Ocean Deltas. 

The New Scholars community is a subgroup of NiCHE that brings together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and recent PhD graduates interested in environmental history and humanities. They work through scheduled digital meetings, in which new emerging scholars share ideas, interests, and resources. The New Scholars Committee is a group of individuals that support the New Scholars Representative and ideate the activities. This year the New Scholars Committee is open to the various vibrant new ideas that will take forward the committee’s works. 

If you are interested in joining as a New Scholars Committee member or subscribing to the general mailing list kindly contact Amrita DasGupta at amritadasgupta58@gmail.com.

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Amrita DasGupta

Amrita is a third year PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is also a visiting researcher at the King's India Institute and a guest teacher at the London School of Economics (LSE). She completed her MPhil titled ‘Bonbibi’s Sundarbans: Tiger Widows and Water-Prostitutes’ from Jadavpur University. It interrogated the impact of/relation between animal-attack widows and the changing norms of widowhood in relation to sex work in the Sundarbans. Her PhD examines transnational water borders of the Indian Ocean World and trafficking in humans, especially in the mangroves ecosystems expanding from India to British East Africa.  Amrita's short documentary, “Save the Sundarbans”, was awarded the cinematography award, script and editing award. She has published in journals including the Economic and Political Weekly, Gitanjali and Beyond. As a SOAS Digital Ambassador Amrita regularly writes for the SOAS blog.  Some of her academic works are listed below:   2021   1. “The Need for an Anti-Trafficking Act for Sexual Servitude” (5 February 2020), SOAS  COP policy Briefing.   2. “Sars of History” Gitanjali and Beyond, Issue 5: Creativity Special  Issue: The Unity of All Things; ISSN 2399-8733.    2020     1. “Hydrocultural Histories and Narratives from Sundarbans”, INSEEEES 3(2), July 2020, New Epistemologies of Water.  2. The Pandemic, A cyclone: (De)Politicising the “Private” in Bengal” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 55, Issue No 39, 26 Sept 2020.

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