Shiva Singh

Shiva is an exchange student at CeMIS, working in Prof. Ravi Ahuja's research group on 'Modern Indian History'. She is pursuing her PhD from the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi, where her research is on the labouring lives of India's frontline women health workers employed in government welfare schemes - the Anganwadi and ASHA workers. Her work brings ethnographic insights into scheme work in conversation with the political economy of care and social reproduction.

She completed her master's in development studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and her bachelor's in economics from the Delhi University. She takes interest in the questions of labour, gender, caste and capitalist transformations.