Tarangini Sriraman

Tarangini Sriraman is a Wellcome Trust-funded Career Development Fellow at King's College London's Department of History within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Her research bridges social history of medicine, socio-legal history in South Asia, and digital humanities. She holds a dual focus on colonial-era documentation practices and contemporary digital labor dynamics in pandemic responses.

Her first monograph In Pursuit of Proof (OUP 2021) examines identification documents in Delhi's urban peripheries, while her second manuscript explores caste-race intersections in 20th-century Indian alcohol discourses. Her current King's project maps digital labor in pandemic volunteer efforts across India and Indonesia, combining oral history and digital methods.

• Expertise: Colonial medical history, migration histories, socio-legal studies
• Teaching: Medical history modules, South Asian history, historiography

Publications span peer-reviewed journals like Medical History and Political and Legal Anthropology Review, with policy-relevant articles in The Wire and India Forum. Awards include the Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship (2021-).

Engagement includes grassroots work with migrant aid networks, digital rights advocacy, and advisory roles for grants at ISRF and Future Leaders Fellowships. She serves on the Editorial Board of Drugs, Habits and Social Policy.