Jenia Mukherjee

Jenia Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur, specializing in urban environmental history, urban political ecology, and transdisciplinary water studies. Her research investigates coastal livelihoods in the Sundarbans and urban deltas/wetlands in India, supported by international projects funded by EU-ICSSR, AHRC-ICHR, SSHRC (Canada), and Swissnex.

• Current role: Assistant Professor at IIT Kharagpur
• Research focus: Urban environmental history, political ecology, water systems
• Funded projects: EU-ICSSR, AHRC-ICHR, SSHRC, Swissnex

Her scholarly contributions include the book Blue Infrastructures (Springer Nature, 2022) and multiple journal articles analyzing urban nature co-production, solid waste management equity, and socio-ecological resilience frameworks. She has held fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center and Salzburg Global Seminar, and currently serves on editorial boards for Journal of Coastal and Riverine Flood Risk and Global Environment.

• 2021: Institute Faculty Excellence Award (IIT Kharagpur)
• 2020: Salzburg Global-Nippon Fellowship
• 2018-19: Carson Writing Fellowship
• 2013: ISSC-UNESCO World Social Science Fellowship

Her publications span topics like historical urban political ecology, community-led environmental governance, and deltaic city resilience, often employing comparative frameworks between South Asia and Europe. She actively collaborates with global think tanks and urban practitioners in the Panta Rhei Network and Knowledge to Action (K2A) initiatives.