[2] In 1989, she was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.
Singer served as head of the Women's Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University.
[3] In 2018 she was appointed to the department of history and the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.
Singer is on the editorial board of Mediterranean Historical Review,[7] the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society[8] and Turcica and is president of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.
[11] In 2008 she received the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2008, First Prize, for the article: “The Persistence of Philanthropy”.