Arvind-Pal S. Mandair is Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan and holds the Endowed Chair in Sikh Studies, the Tara Singh and Balwant Kaur Chattha, Gurbax Singh and Kirpal Kaur Brar Professorship in Sikh Studies.Professor Mandair's current research interests are focused on the intersections between Global Philosophies, Religion and Spirituality, Political Theory, Diaspora and Postcolonial Theory, and Science and Technology Studies. He is founding editor of the Routledge journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory and edits two book series: Routledge Critical Sikh Studies and Routledge Studies in Translation and Religion.
He is author of numerous books, including: Violence and the Sikhs (Cambridge University Press, 2022); Sikh Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2022); Sikhism: A Guide For the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2013); Secularism and Religion-Making (with Markus Dressler, Oxford University Press, 2011); Religion and the Specter of the West (Columbia University Press, 2009).
