Debjani Bhattacharyya Chair for the History of the Anthropocene, University of Zürich

Debjani Bhattacharyya holds the Chair for the History of the Anthropocene at the
University of Zürich. Her work lies at the intersection of legal and environmental history. Her
book, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University
Press, 2018) won the 2019 honorable mention for the best book in Urban History. She is
currently working on her second book Climate Futures Past: Law and Weather Knowledge in
the Indian Ocean World. She is a non-resident fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study
of India, University of Pennsylvania.