Shweta Singh (she/her/hers) is Associate Professor of International Relations at the South Asian University (New Delhi, India). Her research broadly focuses on feminist international relations in South Asia, critical peace and conflict studies with a particular focus on post-colonial South Asia,  the politics of  ‘everyday’, norms and WPS agenda (South Asia), gender and populism, and contemporary politics of Afghanistan, Kashmir and Sri Lanka. Before joining SAU, she taught for nearly a decade at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, and was a visiting fellow, at University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. She is currently the International Studies Association Program Co- Chair (2023-2024), and has also served as member on the ISA Committee on the Status of Engagement with the Global South Members (2020-2024). 

Shweta  has been the recipient of the prestigious United States Leadership Award in 2010, and the Mahbub Ul Haq Award in 2013. She has served as the  the UN Women International Expert on populism, nationalism, and gender (Regional Office for Asia and Pacific), and as Academic Advisor for the UNESCO-MGiEP project on  State of Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education in South Asia. Shweta has led collaborative projects with UN Women, UNESCO-MGIEP, besides being part of  various Track II Civil society networks for building bridges across borders in South Asia. Shweta has designed curriculums, led critical pedagogy workshops in the field of critical peace and conflict research and feminist international relations  particularly foregrounding a South Asian vocabulary/ and a feminist genealogy  of international  relations. She currently sits on the editorial boards of International Studies Quarterly and Strategic Affairs, and leads the collaborative project on Feminist International Relations in South Asia: Past and Present, with University of Dhaka. 

She is co-editor (with Tiina Vaittinen and Catia Confortini), of the Edinburgh University Press, book series titled Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence. The series provides a forum for the expanding feminist scholarship on questions of justice, peace and violence, beyond the war/peace dichotomy and integrates and pushes forward existing feminist contributions to the field of peace research, thus reinvigorating the transdisciplinary traditions of both peace research and feminism.