Shweta Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Author: The Making of Indian Woman Hood - Red Chilli Pickle and Moonlit Terraces and Hindi Poetry Mohabbat Mein Mae Se Maa Tak.
Education
Doctorate in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Masters in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India
Bachelor of Arts from Isabella Thoburn (I.T.) College Lucknow, India
AWARDS
Selected as one of the top contributors, in particular for the piece 鈥淪aving Sakineh from Iran!鈥� in the first Collaborative Blogging Contest organized by the Communication Initiative and the BBC World Service Trust on the theme of Communication, Media, and development Policy.
The Feminist Scholarship in Social Work Award in 2005 by the Council on Social Work Education鈥檚 Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work.
Research Interests
Select Current Research Projects
Mixed Method Measures for Women鈥檚 Identity
Schooling Outcomes and Processes in Globalization
School and Identity Development
Work and Migration and Health outcomes for women
Theoretical Exploration of Women鈥檚 Identity in Media and Religious Texts
Corporate and diaspora philanthropy
Professional/Community Affiliations
Community and Professional Service
Member of Society for Social Work Research
Association for Asian Studies; International Women鈥檚 Association
MELUS/MELOW
Council of Social Work Education
Reviewer for: (i) International Social Work, (ii) Journal of Poverty, and (iii) International Journal of Social Welfare, (iv) Sex Roles, (v) Social Work Education, (vi) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, (vii) International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, and (viii) Violence Against Women (ix) Child Development (x) Policy Studies Journal.
Previous International Experience
Consultant with International and local development agencies in India on issues of child rights and child abuse and social policy with organizations such as UNICEF and OXFAM Lucknow. Also
Corporate philanthropy and social marketing with Confederation of Indian Industries.
Publications/Research Listings
Recent Faculty Scholarship
Singh, S., Lundy, M., Vidal, M., & Caridad, A. (2011). Mexican immigrant families: Relating trauma and family cohesion in the special issue of Journal of Poverty (in Press)
Singh, S., Orwat, J., & Grossman, S. (2011). A protection motivation theory application to date rape education. Psychology, Health & Medicine Available online: 14 Jun
Tsai, J., & Singh, S. Tracing Identities of Urban-professional women from China: Reframing oppression and empowerment. Contemporary Social Work (2011) (Department of Social Work, Lucknow University), Volume XXIV.
Singh, S. (2011). Transgression into 鈥楬idden鈥� Feminism: Immigrant Muslim Women from India in 鈥�Feminism and Migration: Cross-cultural Engagements鈥�Ed. Glenda Bonifacio (Publishers Springer) (in press)
Audio/ Video Documentary Work
Title: Identity: Immigrant Chinese and Indian Women
Title: 鈥淪hobha De is a 鈥榃anna Be: The Immigrant Women Discourse on Shobha De,鈥� (In Progress) this short audio documentary discusses the works of Shobha De, author of women-oriented Pulp Fiction based in India.