(Visiting Doctoral Fellow, 30 July 2025 – present)

Biography:

Shatakshi Singh is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, Resisting Displacement: Mobilization and Claim-making Among Urban Poor in Contemporary India, examines the legal strategies, political negotiations, and grassroots mobilizations through which marginalized communities in Indian cities contest forced evictions and assert housing rights. Her research situates the everyday politics of displacement within broader debates on urban governance, law, and the restructuring of democratic space in contemporary India. Her doctoral studies and research has been supported by the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (2022-2023 and 2023-2024), the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics (2024), and the American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center Research Grant (2025), among others.

She holds an M.Phil. in Latin American Studies and an M.A. in International Relations and Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her M.Phil. thesis, Populism in Brazil under Bolsonaro (2016–2020), emphasized the gendered and racialized dimensions of punitive governance in Brazilian favelas

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