Dr. Utsav Kumar Singh is a fellow at the Institute of Social Science, New Delhi. He formerly served as an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi (2020 – 2023), and as an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi (2019 – 2020). His research interests include comparative political economy, human geography, political institutions, and regional and cross-national qualitative and quantitative analyses of India and South Africa.