Job title:
Sabharwal Lecturer in Sikh Studies
Department:
South and Southeast Asian Studies
Bio/CV:
Puninder Singh completed his PhD in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 2024. His work broadly examines how language and ideas about language mediate religious experience, particularly in the Sikh tradition. His current work examines the development of a new Sikh intellectual formation between 1920-1940, after the era of the Singh Sabha reform movement. He is also at work on several projects that examine how the Sikh tradition has engaged in dialogic and interactive relations with those around it, both linguistically and otherwise, in the long durée, from the early modern through the contemporary period. He is currently the Sabharwal Lecturer in Sikh Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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