Taveeshi Singh

Taveeshi Singh received her PhD from the interdisciplinary Social Science program at Syracuse University, with a designated concentration in Women's and Gender Studies. Her dissertation, 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 combatant soldiers are coerced into performing domestic chores in officers’ households. Taveeshi was previously a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Hamilton College. 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.

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.

Presentations

• "‘Couldn’t We Call It Something Else?’: The Practices and Politics of Categorizing Military Labor and Work." Panel Presentation: Citizenship, Inequalities, Hierarchies. In Service of Security: The Gendered Politics and Everyday Experiences of Military Labor Across Asia. Asia Research Institute Workshop. National University of Singapore, Singapore. 2024.
• “Jawans, Military Work, and the Moral Politics of Labor." Panel Presentation: Coercion and Labor. Service—Servility—Servitude: Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies Summer School. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói-Brazil. 2023.
• “Soldiers and Servants: Gendered Labor, Security, and the Military Household in India.”  Invited Talk. Gendered Labor and Security in the Global South. Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi, India. 2023.
• “On Vulnerability and Researching the Military in India.” Panel Presentation. Research Ethics in Contemporary South Asia. Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium Symposium. Syracuse, NY, USA. 2023.
• “Paradoxes of Nation: The Indian Army’s Sahayak System.” Panel Presentation. Paradoxes of Nation: Tensions and Possibilities in Engaged Feminist, Pedagogical, and Liberatory Praxis. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA. 2023.
• “Challenges and Considerations in Teaching Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies.” Invited Talk. Syracuse University Project Advance. Syracuse, NY, USA. 2022.
• “Toward a Politics of Refusal and Hope: Reflections on an online archive of anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, decolonial feminisms.” Invited Talk. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India. 2021.
• “Logics of Militarized Masculinity: Caste, Coloniality, and Labor in the Indian Army.” Paper Presentation. American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. 2019.
• “Nominal Dignity: The Indian Army’s ‘Solider or Servant?’ Dilemma." Paper Presentation. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 2016.