Jaideep Singh, Assistant Professor Ranjit Singh Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies

Education:
Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies
B.A. University of California, Berkeley, History

Teaching/Research Fields
• Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. History
• The Racialization of Religious Identity in Contemporary Society
• Contemporary Race Relations and Racialized Representations in Popular Culture and Media
• Sikh American Studies
• South Asian Diasporic Communities
• Chinese American History
• Comparative Asian American History & Contemporary Issues
• African American History
• Historiographical Research Methodology
• Oral Historiographical Methodology

Biography:
Jaideep Singh is a writer, teacher, scholar, and activist who loves exploring the wilds of the west coast on foot or on his bike. He feels a particular affinity with the Pacific Ocean, and endeavors to commune with it regularly. He also enjoys cooking with and for, and sharing food— at any number of public and private sites— with his peeps. His formal education was obtained in and around Berkeley, California. His current work attempts to illuminate the ongoing, and regularly rearticulated, ravages of contemporary white and Christian supremacy in our society. In it, he tries to viscerally jar those who refuse to jettison—despite all forms of evidence to the contrary— the asinine notion that we live in a merit-driven, egalitarian society, while assailing those who benefit materially from the extension of this nation’s chosen axes of oppression. He loves music, sunshine, the East Bay, and the beach.

Dr. Singh is co-founder of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), the oldest Sikh American mediawatch and civil rights advocacy organization, and the Sikh Students Association at UC Berkeley. The colleges he has taught at include: Pacific School of Religion, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, the College of the Redwoods, and Oberlin College.

Select Publications:
“Interpreting Media Representation at the Intersections of White and Christian Supremacy,” in Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Procedures, ed. Rebecca Lind, AB/Longman, 2003, p. 117-124.

“Confronting Racial Violence,” ColorLines, Spring 2003, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 23-26.

“The Racialization of Minoritized Religious Identity: Constructing Sacred Sites at the Intersection of White and Christian Supremacy,” Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America, ed. Jane Naomi Iwamura and Paul Spickard, Routledge: New York, 2003, p. 87-106.

“No Sikh Jose: Sikh American Community Mobilization and Inter-racial Coalition Building in the Construction of a Sacred Site,” UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2002, p. 173-201.

“Contemporary Asian American Interest Group and Social Movement Politics,” with Kim Geron, Enrique de la Cruz, and Leland Saito, PS: Political Science and Politics, September 2001, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, p. 619-624.

“De-Privileging Positions: Indian Americans, South Asian Americans, and the Politics of Asian American Studies,” with Shilpa Dave, Pawan Dhingra, Sunaina Maira, Partha Mazumdar, Lavina Shankar, and Rajini Srikanth, Journal of Asian American Studies, February 2000, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 67-100.

“San Francisco Bay Area Sikhs Remember Fallen Martyrs,” The Sikh Review, Calcutta (India), Vol. 45, No. 10 (October 1997), p. 65-66.