{"id":3075,"date":"2019-10-11T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2019-10-11T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T09:18:11","slug":"debjani-bhattacharyya-phd-14-wins-honorable-mention-for-best-book-from-the-urban-history-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2019\/10\/11\/debjani-bhattacharyya-phd-14-wins-honorable-mention-for-best-book-from-the-urban-history-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Debjani Bhattacharyya (PhD, &#8217;14) Wins Honorable Mention for Best Book from the Urban History Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/target.scene7.com\/is\/image\/Target\/GUEST_52ae7144-8d46-46b6-aecf-608805a42cea?wid=488&amp;hei=488&amp;fmt=pjpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/drexel.edu\/coas\/faculty-research\/faculty-directory\/DebjaniBhattacharyya\/\">Debjani Bhattacharyya<\/a>, Assistant\u00a0Professor of History at Drexel University and a 2014 PhD, whose first book recently won an award from the Urban History Association. Bhattacharyya published <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/empire-and-ecology-in-the-bengal-delta\/4741DB240F1EACD9E1AFDDDFD9EE74AA\">Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta<\/a> <\/em>with Cambridge in May of 2018. The Urban History Association awarded the book honorable mention for 2017-18 Best Book in Non-North American History.\u00a0 Bhattacharyya is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University in the Department of History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya, Assistant\u00a0Professor of History at Drexel University and a 2014 PhD, whose first book recently won an award from the Urban History Association. Bhattacharyya published Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta with Cambridge in May of 2018. The Urban History Association awarded the book honorable mention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}