Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya‘s (PhD, ’14) Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge UP, 2018) has recently been made available open access by Cambridge University Press. The monograph, which was Bhattacharyya’s first, won the 2019 honorable mention for the best book in Urban History from the Urban History Association. Bhattacharyya is Associate Professor of History at Drexel University.