Shruti is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). She is a theorist and historian of international relations and anticolonial women’s political thought in the twentieth century. Shruti received her PhD from the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, where she wrote a thesis on the formation of elite Indian women's international thought on gender, race, and anti-imperial solidarities in late British India through multi-sited, archival research. Before commencing her PhD, Shruti was a candidate of the Double Master’s in International Affairs at Sciences Po, Paris, where she studied for an MA in International Security and at the London School of Economics, where she completed her MSc in International Relations (with Distinction).
At POLIS and King’s College, she will work on her postdoctoral project, “At the Margins of the Cold War: New Theory of Indian women’s pacifist thought” and host a podcast series on ‘Forgotten Cold War women’.
