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Shruti Balaji is a British Academy-funded Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at King's College, University of Cambridge. Her interdisciplinary research delves into historical international relations through the lens of gendered and racialized imperial relations. She employs feminist historical epistemologies to advance new theories in anticolonial women's pacifist thought and critically examine the contributions of women thinkers to Afro-Asian pacifist organizations during the Cold War. Shruti completed her doctoral research at the London School of Economics, focusing on the formation of elite Indian women's international thought regarding gender, race, and anti-imperial solidarities in late British India. She also holds a Double Master’s in International Affairs from Sciences Po, Paris, and has an MSc in International Relations with Distinction from the London School of Economics, along with an undergraduate degree in Political Science (Honours) and a postgraduate diploma in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.