Koyna Tomar

Koyna Tomar is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the 20th and 21st-century history of science, technology, and medicine, as it intersects with food, political economy, and the environment. Her dissertation is a social and environmental history of dairy industrialisation in colonial and postcolonial India. It tracks scientific, infrastructural, and financial experiments with cattle that rendered animal life into agrarian capital.

Before joining the Science History Institute, Koyna completed archival research in India and Europe with support from the National Science Foundation and the American Institute of India Studies. She holds a BA in History from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, and an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge.