Priyanka Ghosh is a second year PhD student, interested in political ecology, environmental history, and conservation and development politics in eastern India. She completed her Bachelor's degree from Presidency College, Kolkata, with Geography major. Priyanka received her Master's degree in Geography from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. At present she is interested to explore how the colonial forest conservation policies produce nature in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, India, and its post-colonial implications on the current forest and wild life conservation policies. Her research is important to understand the post-independence political and socio-economic struggle of the local people of the reserve, which is infested with problems of severe cyclones, breaching of embankments and flooding, sea water rising and global warming.

Her research is guided by Dr. Morgan Robertson and Dr. P.P. Karan.
If you are interested to learn about Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, please see the following link:
http://www.sundarbanbiosphere.org/index.htm