Welcome Sangita Saha

The History department welcomes a new Lecturer. Sangita Gita is a historian of South Asia, whose research focuses on colonialism and decolonization in the region, with particular interests in the histories of women, gender, and sexuality in colonial Bengal. 

Sangita’s current book project lies at the intersections of consumption patterns of middle-class women, material cultures, market relations, and construction of modernities in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Bengal. She teaches courses on modern India and South Asia, histories of gender in the Global South, and histories of consumption more globally. Her teaching philosophy is shaped by her own intellectual engagements—namely, that empowering students to see history as an ongoing project, rather than a finished story, can open extraordinary worlds for deeper understandings of humanities inquiries.