Debjani Bhattacharyya

Prof. Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya

University of Zurich
Department of History
Rämistr. 64
CH-8001 Zürich

Website: https://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/neuzeit/lehrstuehle/bhattacharyya/lehrstuhl-bhattacharyya/lehrstuhlinhaberin/debjani.html
ORCID-iD: ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7562-9247
Position / Tätigkeit:

Professor of the History of the Anthropocene

Forschungs- und Interessengebiete:
  • Climate and Environmental History
  • Political Economy
  • Anthropocene
  • Legal History
  • Empire Studies
wichtigste Veröffentlichungen:

Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta, in: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36 (2016), pp. 465-482

Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal, in: Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient 61 (2018), pp. 1036-1073

Discipline and Drain: Settling the Moving Bengal Delta, in: Global Environment 11 (2018), pp. 236-257

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta. The Making of Calcutta, Cambridge 2018

A River is not a Pendulum: Sediments of Science in the World of Tides, in: Isis 112 (2021), pp. 141-149

From Memories to Forecasting: Narrating Imperial Storm Science, in: Mary S. Morgan/Kim M. Hajek/Dominic J. Berry (eds), Narrative Science. Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800, Cambridge 2022, pp. 164-184

Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene, in: Antoinette Burton/Renisa Mawani/Samantha Frost (eds), Biocultural Empire. New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, London 2024, pp. 199-213