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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 DasGupta is a PhD scholar at the Department of Gender Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London) and a guest teacher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the evolution and history of port brothels in the Indian Ocean deltas. She has been a fully funded visiting student research collaborator at Princeton University, a visiting scholar at the King’s India Institute (King’s College London), a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, LMU. Her decade-long research on the Sundarbans was recognised at the launch of the “Mangrove Project” at the House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom. Some of her recent publication are “Puppets at the Hands of Water” published in the Springs Journal (2025), “Accommodative Apparatus: Drawing the Life of Sex Work on the Eroding Coasts of Sundarbans” in the Environment and History Journal (2024).

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