Taveeshi Singh
Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Taveeshi Singh taught at Hamilton in 2020–21, and was recently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Singh’s book project, Domestic Exertions: Soldier-servants, Military Elites, and Securitized Labor in India, explores the politics of gender, labor, value, and national security through an examination of the postcolonial Indian army’s sahayak system (formerly, the colonial “batman” system) in which soldiers are coerced into performing domestic chores in officers’ households.
She is co-editor of the Feminist Freedom Warriors project, an online archive documenting cross-generational conversations about justice, politics, and hope with feminist scholar-activists.
Singh’s areas of interests include transnational feminism; U.S. women of color & global South feminisms; gender & labor; race & caste, militarization & occupation; critical ethnographic, decolonial, and feminist methodologies; feminist and liberatory pedagogies; and global South Asia.
Recent Courses Taught
Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Transnational Feminist Praxis
Distinctions
- Understanding Digital Culture Fellowship (National Endowment for the Humanities-funded), 2020
- Digital Pedagogy Grant, Hamilton College, 2020
- Women of Color Leadership Project Fellowship, National Women's Studies Association, 2018
Selected Publications
- Singh, Taveeshi, and Tayler Mathews. “Facilitating Queer of Color Feminist Co-mentorship: Reflections on an Online Archive of Scholar-Activism.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Vol. 26, Issue 12, 2019.
- Singh, Taveeshi. “Toward a Politics of Refusal and Hope.” In Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics and Hope edited by L.E. Carty and C.T. Mohanty. New York: Haymarket Books, 2018.
- Adair, Vivyan C., Taveeshi Singh, and Stina Soderling. “Capitalism 101.” In Films for the Feminist Classroom, Issue 11.1, 2021.
- Singh, Taveeshi. “Review of Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India.” In H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015.
Professional Affiliations
National Women's Studies Association
American Anthropological Association
Association for Asian Studies
Appointed to the Faculty
2020Educational Background
Ph.D., Syracuse University
M.A., Teachers College Columbia University
B.A., Delhi University
