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.  

Prior to joining Dartmouth's History Department, Suri was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard's Center for History and Economics. Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and the Social Science Research Council.