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).