Sayam Singh has recently graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science in M.Sc Social Anthropology(Learning and Cognition).

Her dissertation was on the topic, “How in Times of Political Conflict Cognitive Essentialism Renders Women Vulnerable to Violence.” This paper argued that the psychological phenomena of classifying human beings into social categories made women within patriarchal societies prone to violence during times of political conflict. For this purpose, the research was focused on the violence faced by women during the event of Partition of Punjab in India during 1947. The paper concluded by contending that within patriarchal societies, it was the women who were, primarily responsible for socializing children. This combined within her ability to give birth, led to her being seen as ‘bearers of their cultural essence’ and made them more vulnerable than men, to violence from both sides; her own and the ‘enemy’ group(when the us and them differentiation reached a violent turn). 

Prior to this, she wrote a paper on “The Relevance of Turban Among Urban Sikhs” for which, she interviewed a group of Sikh men working as drivers in North Delhi. At Amity University, she presented on “The Contributions made by Margaret Mead to Anthropology.” Her presentation focused on the impact that Mead’s publications made within the field, as well as their importance in making the discipline accessible to the wider public.

She hopes to lend her voice in creating an equal society. Her primary area of interests is gender equality and politics.

Her aim is to research how culture and psychology interact with each other to influence human behavior, at both, an individual and group level.