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Update Oct 14, 2009
Read an article written by Dr. Gurinder Singh Mann for our Opportunities & Challenges for Sikh Academics series.
Ten years at UC Santa BarbaraIn the mid-1990s, the newly-created Global and International Studies Program at UCSB, directed by Mark Juergensmeyer, requested the allocation of a position in Sikh and Global Studies...Read More
January 2004
Dr. Gurinder Singh Mann is
currently the Kundan Kaur Kapany Professor of Sikh Studies at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Mann began his
education in 1965 with an M.A. in English from Union Christian
College in Batala, Punjab. Then in 1975 he earned his second M.A in
English from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England which was
followed by Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard University.
Finally he received his PhD in religion from Columbia University.
The title of his dissertation was "The Making of Sikh Scripture” in
which he received a distinction.
After completing his PhD, Dr.
Mann started his employment in 1988 as an instructor in religious
studies at Columbia University. In 1992 he was promoted as an
Assistant Professor and in 1997 as an Associate Professor. Later in
1999, Dr. Mann joined the University of California, Santa Barbara,
Religious Studies department as the Kundan Kaur Kapany Professor of
Sikh Studies.
Dr. Mann’s research and
teaching interests range from the formation of Sikh canon, religion
and society in the Punjab, to the Sikh community in the United
States of America. His publications include:
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Sikhism (Prentice Hall, 2003)
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The Making of Sikh Scripture (Oxford University Press,
2001)
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The Goindval Pothis (Harvard Oriental Series, 1996)
He has also
collaborated in:
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Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs of America (Oxford
University Press, 2001)
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Studying the Sikhs: Issues for North America (SUNY
Press, 1993).
Dr. Mann has also
written numerous articles and
chapters in books authored by other scholars. In addition,
he is the sole contributor of entries on Sikhism in the Encyclopedia
Britannica. Over the years, Dr. Mann has worked toward building the
area of Sikh and Punjab studies in North America. He has lectured at
many university and public forums, organized eleven conferences at
Columbia and UC Santa Barbara, and has represented Sikhism in
projects such as Religious Landscape of America directed by Diana
Eck at Harvard University, and A Nation of Religions directed by
Peter Berger at Boston University.
He has held workshops on the teaching of Punjabi in Singapore and is
associated with the development of Punjabi language program at Simon
Fraser
University, Canada. Mann is the founding director of the Summer
Program in
Punjab Studies in Chandigarh.
Currently Dr. Mann
is involved in building a Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies at UC
Santa Barbara, which he hopes would attract scholars interested in
this area of study from all over the world.
Click here to view
the courses offered by Dr.
Mann at U.C. Santa Barbara
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