Mohit Singh

Mohit Singh

BA (DU), MA (IITGN), Pre-Doc (IIMB)

Mohit Singh is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, in the School of Culture, History, and Languages at the College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU. He comes from the Chambal ravines of Uttar Pradesh, India. He earned his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Delhi, followed by a master’s degree in Society & Culture at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar. His master’s thesis examined the persistence of caste among the Indian diaspora in the United States and the anti-caste resistance led by the Ambedkarites. Most recently, he completed a Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, where he worked on occupational heat exposure and its relation to caste. His work found that people from the Dalit community are invariably exposed to heat stress in indoor and outdoor settings. Building on that, Mohit’s PhD research unpacks the relationship of Dalits with the environment, contributing to knowledge on Dalit ecologies and environmental justice. Mohit also writes for the public, and recent pieces include ‘When has there been no heat?” Dalit lives in climate crisis’ in Maktoob Media. Beyond academia, Mohit is an avid sportsperson and enjoys travelling and cooking. With a commitment to building scholarship that is rooted in lived realities, his work advances conversations on social and environmental justice.

Research Interest

Mohit is interested in questions of caste inequality, climate change, and environmental justice. His research explores the lived experience of thermal inequality among migrant brick kiln labourers in central Uttar Pradesh. He examines how entanglements of migration, climate change, and labour regimes reproduce caste-based inequalities.

HDR Supervisor/s

Assa Doron

Expertise Area(s)

caste
human-environment relations
Climate Change
labour
heat

Contact Email

mohit.singh@anu.edu.au