Kriti Kapila

Dr. Kriti Kapila is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Law at King's India Institute and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London. She is currently on sabbatical as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2023-24), and serves as a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, and previously at the Collège de France. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and a master's from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior roles include Senior Research Associate at University College London and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

Her research focuses on the anthropology of state, law, ethnographic theory, science and technology, and digital governance in contemporary India, particularly addressing biometric systems (Aadhaar) and genomic medicine. Key works include Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India (2022), which won the Bernard S Cohn Prize. She chairs the Society for Ethnographic Theory and contributes to interdisciplinary studies of health and illness through the Culture, Medicine & Power research group.

Teaching expertise spans modules on medicine, law in India, and South Asian anthropology. She supervises PhD students in her research areas and has organized events like the King's India Institute Graduate Conference. Her recent work explores digital statemaking and the socio-legal dimensions of biometric infrastructure in India.