About
Sweta Singh is an Assistant professor of History at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is an M.Phil and Ph.D. in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has completed her Masters in History from Banaras Hindu University. Her PhD. thesis delves into Jewish diaspora of Cochin and various social, cultural and economic aspects related to the Jewish community. She has worked as a Research Assistant with a Delhi based NGO: Centre for Social Research. She specializes in Indian Medieval History. Her research interests include (but are not limited to) Maritime History, study of the Cochin(Malabar) Jewish Diaspora, Indian Ocean trade and community, Jewish history, migration and gender etc. Sweta has presented her work at various national and international conferences. Her research papers have been published in Indian History Congress and Social Sciences International Research Journal. Her upcoming publication is a chapter in an e-book: Yeni Israiliyat: Doguda Yahudive Israil Calismalari, Selcuk University, Turkey.