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]
Mann studied for a master's degree in English from Baring Union Christian College in Batala, Punjab, from 1965 to 1971, and then completed a diploma in English Studies at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, India, in 1975. He 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. He joined the doctoral program in Religion at Columbia University in 1987, and completed his Ph.D. there in 1993. [3]
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]
Between 2017 and March 2024, Mann delivered 94 public lectures at Akal University, Talwandi Sabo; Ambedkar University, Delhi; Archbishop Williams High School, Braintree, MA; Central University of Punjab, Bathinda; Chandigarh University, Chandigarh; Bharati College, Guru Tegh Bahadur College, Mata Sundri College, Sri Ram College, Delhi University; Elijah Summer School, Jerusalem; Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar; Institute of Technology, Ropar; Jindal Global University, Sonipat; Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; Dyal Singh Research Forum, Lahore; LPUniversity, Jalandhar; Nazareth College, New York, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjabi University, Patiala; University of Rome, Rome, and a host of other academic and public forums.
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