Eduardo Acosta | Fluvial Amnesia? Bengal’s Rivers as a Historical Problem

Eduardo Acosta is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and a lecturer at the history department, Stanford University. He received his PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2022. Eduardo 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.