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Social Sciences Division
Politics Department
Ph.D. Candidate in Politics
Graduate
South Asia Studies
Merrill College Academic Building
139
By appointment
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
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 the 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 research has been supported by the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (2022–2023, 2023–2024), the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics (2024), the American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center Research Grant (2025), the Center for South Asian Studies Graduate Research Fellowship (2025), and most recently, the National Science Foundation Law and Science Dissertation Grant (2025) among others.
Shatakshi holds an M.Phil. in Latin American Studies and an M.A. in International Relations and Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, as well as a B.A. (Hons.) in History from the University of Delhi. Her M.Phil. thesis, Populism in Brazil under Bolsonaro (2016–2020), analyzed the articulation of populist discourse within racialized and gendered practices of state violence.
- Socio-legal Studies
- Critical Legal Studies
- Critical Urban Studies
- Legal Mobilization
- Populism
- South Asia
- Chronopolitics
- Legal Mobilization
- Rule of Law Practices
- Urban Studies
- Critical Legal Theory
- Informality
- South Asia
- Comparitive Politics
- International Relations
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Law and Society
- South Asian and Latin American Politics
2025 - Awarded the National Science Foundation Law and Science Dissertation Grant
2025- Awarded the Centennial Center Spring Research Grant by the American Political Science Association
2025- Center for South Asian Studies Graduate Research Fellowship by the Humanities Institute, University of California Santa Cruz
2025 - Department of Politics Summer Research Grant, University of California Santa Cruz
2025 – Travel Grant for SOAS “Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society” Workshop, in London, UK
2025 – International Studies Association Travel Grant
2024 – Department of Politics Summer Research Grant, University of California Santa Cruz
2024 – Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, Iowa State University
2023–2024 – P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship
2023 – Graduate Dean’s Research Travel Grant University of California Santa Cruz (Winter 2023)
2023 – Graduate Dean’s Research Travel Grant, University of California Santa Cruz (Summer 2023)
2023 - (Declined) Travel Fellowship for Sciences Po-YSI workshop "A Space for Place in the Social Sciences" in Paris, France
2022–2023 – P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship
2021 – Regents Fellowship Award, University of California Santa Cruz
2019-2021 - UGC Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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