Eduardo Acosta

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History, Stanford University

Eduardo Acosta received his PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2022. He is a historian of early modern South Asia, working at the intersection of conceptual and environmental history in Eastern India. His research and teaching focus on processes of temporalization and historical periodization, especially the coinage and use of the concept of the "medieval" outside Europe.

SHC Project

A River of Ruined Capitals: History and Environmental Change in Early Modern Bengal

Eduardo Acosta