Gurinder Singh Mann at Goleta, California in 2001.

Gurinder Singh Mann is a Punjabi-American scholar and professor of Sikh studies, and the author of multiple books on Sikh religion and society. Mann taught religion at Columbia University from 1988 to 1999 and then held the Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Sikh Studies from 1999 to 2015 at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] He retired from Santa Barbara in 2015, and founded the Global Institute for Sikh Studies in New York City, which he presently directs.[2]

Education

Mann studied for a master's degree in English from Baring Union Christian College in Batala, Punjab, from 1965 to 1971, completed a diploma in English Studies at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, India, in 1975, and earned a second master's degree in English from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England, in 1976. From 1984 to 1987 he studied for Master of Theological Studies at Harvard University and completed his Ph.D. with distinction in Religion at Columbia University in 1993.[3]

Career

Mann taught English at Baring Union Christian College, Batala from 1971 to 1984, religion at Columbia University from 1988 to 1999 and then held the Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Sikh Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1999 to 2015.[1][4]

In 2013, he came under investigation by UCSB's Title IX office for inappropriate "sexual conduct, both verbal and physical", with a female student, and for similar complaints from some other students. Mann denied the claims, but its report concluded that "more likely than not" inappropriate conduct did occur.[4][5]

Selected publications

Mann is the author or editor of:

  • Studying the Sikhs: Issues for North America (edited with John Stratton Hawley, State University of New York Press, 1993)[6]
  • The Goindval Pothis: The Earliest Extant Source of the Sikh Canon (Harvard University Press, 1996)[7]
  • The Making of Sikh Scripture (Oxford University Press, 2001)[8]
  • Sikhism (Prentice Hall, Religions of the World Series, 2004; Japanese & Spanish editions, 2007)[9]
  • Buddhisten, Hindus und Sikhs in Amerika (mit Paul David Numrich und Raymond Williams, Oxford University Press, 2008) [ 10 ]
  • Einführung in das Punjabi: Grammatik, Konversation und Literatur (mit Ami P. Shah et al., Punjabi University, 2011) [ 11 ]
  • Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism , Band 1 (mit Kristina Myrvold et al., für die Rezension siehe http://giss.org/jsps_vol_25/webster-review.pdf )
  • Vier Sonderausgaben des Journal of Punjab Studies zur Punjabi-Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts , Guru Gobind Singh, WH McLeod, JS Grewal.

Referenzen

  1. ^ a b Conrad, Eileen (3. Dezember 1998). „Die Vergangenheit bewahren, die Gegenwart verstehen: Bedeutende Sikh-Studien-Expertin auf den Kapany-Lehrstuhl berufen“ . UC Santa Barbara News .
  2. ^ Sharma, Sarika (28. Mai 2017). „Ein Geschenk für kommende Generationen: Die Historikerin Gurinder Singh Mann baut in New York ein Archiv mit Texten und Artefakten zum Sikhismus auf . “ The Tribune .
  3. ^ „Curriculum vitae“ (PDF) . Abgerufen am 12.06.2023 .
  4. ^ a b Allison Garfield, Josh Ortiz und Stephany Rubio (2. März 2017). „Dokumente belegen, dass 6 UCSB-Mitarbeiter gegen die Title-IX-Richtlinie verstoßen haben“ . The Daily Nexus . Abgerufen am 16. November 2017 .
  5. ^ „Mindestens 20 Fälle von sexuellem Fehlverhalten gegen Dozenten der Universität von Kalifornien innerhalb von drei Jahren“ . CBS News. 9. März 2017. Abgerufen am 16. November 2017 .
  6. ^ Rezensionen zu „ Studying the Sikhs: Issues for North America“ :
    • La Brack, Bruce (Mai 1994), The Journal of Asian Studies , 53 (2): 589– 590, doi : 10.2307/2059900 , JSTOR  2059900{{citation}}: CS1 Wartung: unbetitelte Zeitschrift ( Link )
    • Cole, W. Owen (1995), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , 58 (2): 399, JSTOR  620922{{citation}}: CS1 Wartung: unbetitelte Zeitschrift ( Link )
    • Klostermaier, Klaus K. (September 1995), Studies in Religion , 24 (3): 375–376 , doi : 10.1177/000842989502400326 , S2CID  148990829{{citation}}: CS1 Wartung: unbetitelte Zeitschrift ( Link )
  7. ^ Rezensionen zu The Goindval Pothis :
  8. ^ Rezensionen zu „Die Entstehung der Sikh-Schriften“ :
    • Friedlander, Peter G. (Frühjahr 2003), The Sixteenth Century Journal , 34 (1): 245–246 , doi : 10.2307/20061371 , JSTOR  20061371{{citation}}: CS1 Wartung: unbetitelte Zeitschrift ( Link )
    • Singh, Pashaura (Juli–September 2003), Journal of the American Oriental Society , 123 (3): 699–701 , doi : 10.2307/3217783 , JSTOR  3217783{{citation}}: CS1 Wartung: unbetitelte Zeitschrift ( Link )
  9. ^ Überblick über den Sikhismus :
  10. ^ Rezensionen über Buddhisten, Hindus und Sikhs in Amerika :
    • Carroll, James T. (November 2002), The History Teacher , 36 (1): 137, doi : 10.2307/1512506 , JSTOR  1512506{{citation}}: CS1 Wartung: unbetitelte Zeitschrift ( Link )
    • La Brack, Bruce (Winter 2003), Journal of American Ethnic History , 22 (2): 102– 103, JSTOR  27501293{{citation}}: CS1 Wartung: unbetitelte Zeitschrift ( Link )
  11. ^ Rezensionen zu „Einführung in das Punjabi“ :