Atiya Singh brings a wealth of experience as a scholar, educator, and academic leader, with expertise in academic affairs and operations, program design and management, and partnership development. Trained as a historian of modern South Asia, she earned her PhD at the University of Chicago and was an Aman Fellow at Harvard’s South Asia Institute.
A veteran instructor in the College and the Graham School, Atiya was awarded the Wayne C. Booth Teaching Prize in 2012. Since 2014, she has held a range of academic and administrative roles on campus, including Assistant Director of Law, Letters, and Society; Divisional Coordinator in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division; and undergraduate academic advisor. Most recently, she served in the Leadership Development Office at the Booth School of Business, designing and delivering co-curricular leadership programs for MBA students.
At the McKeon Center, Atiya will draw on her experience in research, program design and management to help build the Center’s ambitious research and curricular initiatives and programming.