Rashmee Singh (she/her) is a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include feminist legal theory, feminist criminology, specialized courts, gender-based violence, and the governance of sex work.
Her primary research project is a five-year comparative study examining the impact of criminal legal reforms on adult sex workers in the wake of anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution panics in the United States and Canada. The project, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) examines specialized prostitution and human trafficking courts in multiple American cities and anti-trafficking movements in Southern Ontario.
Singh is also at work on a research project funded by a SSHRC partnership Engage Grant examining the impact of COVID-19-related disruptions on domestic violence shelters in Ontario, Canada.
Singh is the recipient of grants from the SSHRC, the University of Waterloo, and the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, among other sources of support.
Her research has been published in Law and Social Inquiry, The British Journal of Criminology, Feminist Studies, Theoretical Criminology, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the books Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada (UBC Press, 2022), Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020), Entryways to Criminal Justice (University of Alberta Press, 2019), and others.