Ipshita Nath is the Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post Doctoral Fellow in History of Medicine, and is currently working on various aspects of diseases and healthcare in colonial Indian prisons. She was an Assistant Professor in English at a constituent college at University of Delhi, India, before that. Her book, Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India, was published by Hurst UK and Harper Collins in 2022, and was nominated for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Award in 2023. She recently secured the LIAS fellowship at the University of Leicester, and is currently working on her forthcoming books, In Sickness and in Health: Deadly Diseases of Colonial India and Vicereines of the Raj, contracted with Harper Collins. Her book of short stories, The Rickshaw Reveries was published in 2020 by Simon and Schuster.
Ph.D., Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2021
M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2014
B.A., Kamala Nehru University, University of Delhi, Delhi, 2012.