Taveeshi Singh
Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Taveeshi Singh is a humanistic social scientist whose scholarship and teaching are grounded in feminist inquiry and praxis. Her research and pedagogical interests include gender & labor; transnational feminism; U.S. women of color & global South feminisms, race & caste, militarization & occupation; critical ethnographic, decolonial, and feminist methodologies; feminist and liberatory pedagogies; and global South Asia.
Singh’s current book project, Domestic Exertions: Soldier-servants, Military Elites, and Securitized Labor in India, explores the politics of gender, labor, value, and national security by examining 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 was recently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Center for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, and taught at Hamilton in 2020–21.
Recent Courses Taught
Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Transnational Feminist Praxis
Feminist Methodological Perspectives
Women & War: Feminism, Militarism, Nationalism
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism in South Asia
Distinctions
- Faculty of Arts & Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2024-2025
- Faculty of Color Working Group Fellowship (National Endowment for the Humanities-funded), 2023
- National Women’s Studies Association Graduate Scholarship Award (Honorable Mention), 2023
- Diane Lyden Murphy Bread and Roses Award for Activism on Behalf of Women and Gender Nonconforming People, Syracuse University, 2023
- Joan Lukas Rothenberg Graduate Student Service Award, Syracuse University, 2023
- Understanding Digital Culture Fellowship (National Endowment for the Humanities-funded), 2020
- Loren Frankel Memorial Scholarship, American Men’s Studies Association, 2019
- Women of Color Leadership Project Fellowship, National Women's Studies Association, 2018
Selected Publications
- Sertzen, Pamela, and Taveeshi Singh. “From Kitchen Table to Classroom: Tracing Solidarity in the Feminist Freedom Warriors Archive.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, forthcoming 2026.
- Singh, Taveeshi. “'Couldn’t we call it something else?' The Indian Army’s Sahayak System and Categorizing Military Labor.” Critical Military Studies, forthcoming 2025.
- Carty, Linda, Chandra, Mohanty, Monica Lopez-Lara, and Taveeshi Singh. “Intergenerational Feminist Praxis and the Making of the Feminist Freedom Warriors Archive.” Feminist Theory, Vol. 26, Issue 3, 2025.
- Adair, Vivyan C., Taveeshi Singh, and Stina Soderling. “Capitalism 101.” In Films for the Feminist Classroom, Issue 11.1, 2021.
- 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.
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
