Doctoral Dissertations

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AMI P. SHAH
Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
In Praise of the Guru: A Translation and Study of Sainapati’s Sri Gursobha (UC Santa Barbara, Dec  2010)

GIBB SCHREFFLER
University of California, Santa Barbara
Signs of Separation: Dhol in Punjabi Culture (UC Santa Barbara, July 2010)

NATASHA BEHL
University of California, Los Angeles
Politics of Equality: Caste and Gender Paradoxes in the Sikh Community (UC Los Angeles, July 2010)

RAHULDEEP SINGH GILL
Department of Religion
California Lutheran University

60 West Olsen Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-2787
Growing the Banyan Tree: Early Sikh Tradition in the Works of Bhai Gurdas Bhalla (2009)

KRISTINA MYRVOLD
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Lund University

Lund, Sweden
Inside the Guru's Gate: Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi (Lund University, 2007)
While working on her dissertation, Kristina Myrvold spent 14 months at UCSB.

For her work at Lund, visit www.sikhs-in-europe.org.

DAN M. MICHON
Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA 91711
Material Matters: Archaeology, Numismatics, and Religion in Early Historic Punjab (2007)

ANNA B. BIGELOW
Department of Philosophy & Religion
North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695
Sharing Saints, Shrines, and Stories: Practicing Pluralism in North India (2004)