EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge is an Associate Professor of History and an Associate Member of Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of South Asia with a particular emphasis on Punjab and the Sikh tradition. His first book, Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia, was published by Columbia University Press in 2024. He is currently working on his second book, A Critique of Contextual Reason, for which he was awarded membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in the 2024-2025 Academic Year. His publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Modern Asian Studies, Theory & Event, Cultural Critique, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, History & Theory, among others.
ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Mark Juergensmeyer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies and Sociology, and an affiliate 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 a leading scholar of religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian religion and politics, with over 300 articles and 30 books to his name, including Terror in the Mind of God and When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends. He is a recipient of the Grawemeyer Award and has held fellowships from the Wilson Center, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is the Crawford Family Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Colby College, where she has taught since 1986. An internationally recognized scholar of Sikhism, her work focuses on sacred poetics, gender, and feminist readings of the Sikh tradition. She is the author of numerous books, including The First Sikh: The Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak, The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent, and Janamsakhi: Paintings of Guru Nanak in Early Sikh Art. She has served on the editorial boards of History of Religions, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Sikh Formations.
Dr. Nirvikar Singh is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies (2010–2020, resumed 2026) and serves as Co-Director of the Center for Analytical Finance. He previously directed the university's South Asian Studies Initiative. His research spans development economics, political economy, and the economics of Punjab and Sikh diaspora communities, and he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economics, Management and Religion. He has advised the Government of India on economic policy, including through the Advisory Group to the Finance Minister on G-20 matters.
EDITORS
Dr. Harleen Kaur studies the subjectivity formation of the US Sikh Punjabi diaspora through the lens of empire, memory, and advocacy for social and political inclusion. Her current project – Martialing Race – traces the co-optation of Sikh embodied sovereignty and community negotiations for safety and recognition into empire- and state-driven tactics of increased surveillance, militarization, and policing. Her passion project is utilizing Sikhi’s radical notion of Oneness as a driver for higher community consciousness rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression framework. Dr. Kaur is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University and received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
dr. prabhdeep singh kehal investigates how racism, cisheterosexism, and colonialism are experienced in cultural organizations, asking what constitutes anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-casteist strategies of cultural inclusion in two ongoing projects. In a book project, they explore how cultural change and demographic inclusion unfold in debates over the hireability of junior, tenure-track professors. In their ongoing project, they conduct oral histories with LGBTQIA+ Sikhs to explore how Sikhs feel included in the sangat and nation as they navigate experiences of cisheterosexism and settler colonialism through Sikhi. dr. kehal is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received their PhD in sociology from Brown University, and uses they/them pronouns.
Dr. Diditi Mitra is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brookdale Community College. Her research focuses on race and immigration. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed articles, she has authored “Punjabi Immigrant Mobility in the United States: Adaptation through Race and Class” and co-edited “Race and the Lifecourse: Readings from the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Age”. Diditi is also a Kathak dancer and an aspiring poet.
Dr. Jugdep S. Chima is a Professor of Political Science & International Studies at Hiram College (Ohio, USA). His research focuses on issues of ethnic nationalism, particularly in South Asia and India. He is the author of “The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements” and editor of “Ethnic Subnationalist Insurgencies in South Asia: Identities, Interests, and Challenges to State Authority”. He has also served as an expert consultant for various government agencies, specifically on refugee and humanitarian affairs.
Dr. Shruti Devgan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bowdoin College. Her recent scholarship examines diasporic, intergenerational, and digitally mediated memories of the anti-Sikh violence of 1984 in India. She is especially interested in bridging the gap between academia and wider audiences and has written for platforms such as Contexts, the American Sociological Association’s journal for general readers, and NYU’s web journal, The Revealer.
Dr. Elizabeth Weigler is a researcher in the Medical School at UM-Duluth and holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her scholarship and publications focus on the public historical projects of Sikhs living in the United Kingdom to understand identity formation and the role of the individual within processes of collective memory and civic engagement. She is dedicated to community-based knowledge and self-representation, working with grassroots outreach endeavors in Sikh and Punjabi heritage and broader crowd-sourced platforms.
Dr. Jagbir Jhutti-Johal is a Reader in Sikh Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on gender, Sikh identity in the diasporic community, representation within gurdwaras, racialization and mistaken identity, and other contested issues that confront the Sikh community. She also works on public policy, social and political engagement issues as they affect and are affected by the British Sikh community. Recent co-authored publication with Hardeep Singh: Racialisation, Islamophobia and Mistaken Identity: The Sikh Experience. She is very involved in voluntary work within the community, especially around race hate crime, gender, and children's issues.
Dr. Amrit Deol is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian American Studies Program at California State University, Fresno. She received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of California, Merced. A historian of race, religion, and empire, her research examines Punjabi anticolonial movements and diaspora, including the Ghadar Party and the Kirti-Kisan movement. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Punjab Studies, and her article "The Makings of a Mutiny: Exploring Diasporicity in Ghadar Party Poetry in North America" is forthcoming in Sikh Formations.