Dr. Mark Juergensmeyer, in conversation with Professor Anshu Malhotra of UC Santa Barbara on Sikh Studies at her University.
Dr. Anshu Malhotra is Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Kunadan Kaur Kapany Professor and Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has taught at the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. She holds a Ph.D from SOAS, University of London. She works on gender histories, cultural studies, autobiography studies and histories of South Asia, in particular that of Punjab and the Sikhs. She is the author of Piro and the Gulabdasis: Gender, Sect and Society in Punjab and Gender, Caste and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab.
Dr. Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of global studies,professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was the founding director of the Global and International Studies Program and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including the co-authored God in the Tumult of the Global Square: Religion in Global Civil Society, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, Gandhi’s Way, and more. He has received research fellowships from the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for contributions to the study of religion, and was awarded the Silver Award of the Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence in Spain.
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