Avantika Singh

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Avantika Singh is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Minnesota, where she studies the spatial and structural dimensions of violence. Beginning Fall 2026, she will continue her doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. She earned an MA in International Human Rights from the University of Denver, where she served as Project Lead for the Perceived Mass Atrocities Dataset Project and as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Sié Chéou‑Kang Center. Her professional background spans directing a global mass‑atrocities dataset project, advancing feminist leadership and peacebuilding research, monitoring human rights across South Asia, examining genocidal violence in Bosnia, and supporting migration policy development with the UN–IOM in Papua New Guinea. A ThinkSwiss Fellow, she has conducted research at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and holds additional degrees in development studies and international humanitarian law.