Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is the chair of the department and Crawford Family Professor of Religion at Colby College. Her interests focus on poetics and feminist issues. Nikky Singh has published extensively in the field of Sikhism, including The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), The Name of My Beloved: Verses of the Sikh Gurus (HarperCollins and Penguin), and Metaphysics and Physics of the Guru Granth Sahib (Sterling).

Mark Juergensmeyer

Mark Juergensmeyer, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara, is a leading expert on religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian politics. Author of over thirty books, including the acclaimed Terror in the Mind of God and God and War, he is a frequent commentator for outlets such as CNN, BBC, and NPR.

Mallika Kaur

Mallika Kaur, Director of the Domestic Violence & Gender-Based Violence Practicum at Berkeley Law, is an interdisciplinary lawyer, author, and community organizer specializing in gender and minority rights. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Sikh Family Center, she has worked with survivors of gendered violence for two decades and is the author of Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict.

Anna Bigelow — Moderator

Anna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Stanford University, specializing in South Asian Islam, sacred spaces, and pluralism. Author of Sharing the Sacred, she is currently working on a comparative study of shared sacred sites in India and Turkey and an edited volume on material objects in Islamic cultures.