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Ph.D. Candidate in Politics
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Shatakshi Singh is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Politics with an interest in the evolving dynamics of legal mobilization in South Asia. Her dissertation examines how marginalized urban populations contest state-enforced evictions and dispossession through the use of law and legal institutions In India. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, her work contributes to the broader understanding of access to justice and rights-based activism in South Asian socio-legal scholarship. Shatakshi holds an M.Phil. and M.A. in International Relations and Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, as well as a B.A. in History (Hons.) from the University of Delhi, India. Her work has been supported by the prestigious P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (2022-2023 and 2023-2024) and the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics (2023).
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