Kriti Kapila headshot
Current Member

Kriti Kapila

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Social Anthropology

Home Institution

King's College London
Kriti Kapila is a social anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of the state and the law. She has written on property, dispossession, and sovereignty in India in relation to indigenous title, museum objects, and data ownership under biometrics (Aadhaar). At the IAS, she will be working on digital state-making in India.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D.
2003

Honors

2024
AAS 2024 Bernard Cohn Book Prize

Appointments

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences, ParisSociales
2021–2023
Visiting Professor
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, College de France
2021
Visting Professor