Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is the Crawford Professor and chair of the department of Religious Studies at Colby College in the USA. Dr. NGK Singh has published extensively in the field of Sikh studies. Her books include Cosmic Symphony: The Early and Later Poems of Bhai Vir Singh (published by the Sahitya Akademi — 2008; republished 2010). Some other titles: The First Sikh (Penguin, 2019), Hymns of the Sikh Gurus (Penguin, 2019), An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab (IB Tauris, 2012), Sikhism: An Introduction (IB Tauris, 2011), Birth of the Khalsa (SUNY 2005), Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Physics and Metaphysics of the Guru Granth (Sterling Publishers, 1981). She has served on the editorial board of several journals including the History of Religions, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Sikh Formations. She came to America to attend a girls’ prep school in Virginia, got her BA from Wellesley College, MA from University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from Temple University. She is the Vice-President ΦBK, Beta Chapter of Maine.