Tara Suri
Assistant Professor
Tara Suri is a historian of science and society in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Her research and teaching focus on histories of medicine and health; histories of decolonization and the Cold War; and histories of race, caste, gender, and sexuality. She is presently at work on a book about South Asia's global biomedical trade in rhesus monkeys.
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Department(s)
History
Education
- PhD Princeton University
- MA Princeton University
- MPhil University of Cambridge
- AB Harvard University
Selected Publications
"Modeling Man, Discounting Humanity," Isis 117, no. 1 (2026): 131-137.
With Gregg Mitman, eds. "Introduction -- Trading in Primates: Post/colonial Ecologies of Extraction, Conservation, and Care," Focus Section, Isis 117, no. 1 (2026): 120-122.
"Between Simians and Cell Lines: Rhesus Monkeys, Polio Research, and the Geopolitics of Tissue Culture (1934–1954)," Journal of the History of Biology 55, no. 1 (2022): 115-146.