Ankita Bhattacharya

Ankita is an archaeologist whose research explores coastal landscapes and the material manifestations of human–environment relationships in ecologically vulnerable zones. She focuses on the materialities and politics of salt production in South Asia, situating these practices within broader histories of resource extraction and transformations of coastal ecologies. She is also interested in questions of displacement, resistance, and violence in marginalized waterscapes, as well as how archaeology can serve as a practice of empowerment and agency for communities. 

Ankita pursued her B.A in History from Delhi University, her M.A in Ancient History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, followed by an M.A. in Archaeology from University College London.

When she is not digging into the past, she’s digging into food (for research, of course) and turning calories into rhythms as a Kathak artist!