MAYA SINGHAL
is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago.
Maya's research is interested in how people navigate violence across generations. Their current book manuscript, Safer: Community Defense in New York City, explores the conflicts and solidarities born out of community defense projects and alternatives to policing in Chinese, Black, and Latine neighborhoods from the 1960s to the present. They also write more broadly about race, capitalism, "racial capitalism," gendered labor, and childhood.
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Maya received their PhD in anthropology from Harvard University. They previously held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. They have taught in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and the Management Communication Program in the Stern School of Business at New York University. Maya holds MA degrees in anthropology from Harvard University, the social sciences from the University of Chicago, and humanities and social thought from NYU. They received their undergraduate degree in social and cultural analysis from NYU.