Education:
· Ph.D. Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2000
· MTS, Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, USA, 1992
· Joint Honours B.A., Social Development Studies/Religious Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1990
Selected Publications:
Books Authored or Edited:
Doris R. Jakobsh, ed. (2021) Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions. Basel: MDPI.
https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4036
FORTHCOMING:
Opinderjit K. Takhar and Doris R. Jakobsh, eds. (2021) The Global Sikh Community: Issues, Challenges and responses in the twenty-first Century, New York: Routledge.
World Religions: Canadian Perspectives - Eastern Traditions - Nelson Educational Press, 2013
World Religions: Canadian Perspectives - Western Traditions - Nelson Education Press, 2013
Sikhism - University of Hawaii Press, 2011
Sikhism and Women - Oxford University Press, 2010
Relocating Gender on Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity, Delhi Oxford University Press, 2003, 2005.
JOURNALS, EDITOR:
Doris R. Jakobsh, Guest Editor - Special Issue, Religions: “Exploring Gender and Sikh traditions.” Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI, 2019-2020. 14 articles published.
Book Chapters (refereed):
Doris R. Jakobsh, “The manifold lives of Bhai Vir Singh’s Sundri,” Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab, eds. A. Malhotra and A. Murphy. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
Doris R. Jakobsh, “Introduction: Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions,” Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions, ed., D. Jakobsh, Basel: MDPI. 1-6.
Doris R. Jakobsh and Margaret Walton-Roberts (2017) “A century of miri-piri: securing Sikh belonging in Canada,” Diasporas and Transnationalisms. The Journey of the Komagata Maru, Anjali G. Roy and Ajaya K. Sahoo, eds, London and New York: Routledge, 83-100.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2017) “Gender in Sikhism,” Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism, Volume 1, History, Literature, Society, Beyond Punjab, K. Jacobsen, et al., eds., Leiden: Brill.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2015) “Marking the Female Sikh Body. Reformulating and Legitimating Sikh Women’s Turbaned Identity on the World Wide Web,” Young Sikhs in a Global World: Negotiating Identity, Tradition and Authority, K. Jacobsen and K. Myrvold, eds., Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 125-148.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Gender in Sikh Traditions,” Oxford Handbook on Sikh Studies, Pashaura Singh and Louis Fenech, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “The Sikhs in Canada: Culture, Religion and Radicalization,” Religion, Radicalization and Securitization, Paul Bramadat and Lorne Dawson, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 164-200.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Sikhism and Women,” Women and Religious Traditions, 3nd edition (re-written). Leona M. Anderson and Pamela Dickey Young, eds. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 226 - 255.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Gender in Sikh Traditions,” Oxford Handbook on Sikh Studies, Pashaura Singh and Louis Fenech, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “The Sikhs in Canada: Culture, Religion and Radicalization,” Religion, Radicalization and Securitization, Paul Bramadat and Lorne Dawson, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Sikhism and Women,” Women and Religious Traditions, 3nd edition,. Leona M. Anderson and Pamela Dickey Young, eds. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 226 - 255.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2012) “’Sikhizing the Sikhs’: The role of ‘new media’ in historical and contemporary identity construction within global Sikhism,” Sikhs Across Borders. Transnational Practices of European Sikhs, Knut Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold, eds. London, UK: Bloomsbury, 141-164.
Doris R. Jakobsh and Eleanor Nesbitt, (2010), “Sikhism and Women. Contextualizing the Issues,” Sikhism and Women. History, Texts and Experience, Doris R. Jakobsh, ed. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-34.
Refereed Journal Publications:
Doris R. Jakobsh (2021) “Sikh women’s internet sites: development, content, mission,” Journal of Contemporary Religion, in press.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2021) “Introduction: Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions,“ Religions, 12:3, 161-167.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2020) “Sundri: Then and Now,” Sikh Formations, 16:1, 101-116.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2017) “Tragic Violence, Hate Crimes and Grieving Within Sacred Geographies of Faith: Sikhs and the Oak Creek Gurdwara Shootings, 2012,” The Journal of Religion and Culture 27: 1&2, 103-131.
Doris R. Jakobsh and Margaret Walton-Roberts (2016) “A Century of Miri Piri: Securing Sikh Belonging in Canada,” South Asian Diaspora, 8:2, 167-183.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2015) “Feminizing the Khalsa. Text, narrative and image within the virtual realm,” Sikh Formations 11:1-2, 190-209.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2015) “Seeking the Image of ‘Unmarked’ Sikh Women: Text, Sacred Stitches, Turban,” Religion & Gender. Special issue: The Normative Power of Images 5:1, 35-51.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2014) “Offline politics/online shaming: honour codes, modes of resistance and responses to Sikh gurdwara politics,” Diaspora. Assessing the Complexities of South Asian Migration 17(3): 220-228.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2008) “3HO/Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere: The “Forgotten” New Religious Movement?” Religion Compass, 2:1.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2006) “Understanding Religion and Cyberspace: What have we learned, what lies ahead?” Religious Studies Review, 32:4.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2006) “Sikhism, Interfaith Dialogue and Women: Transformation and Identity,” Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May).
Doris R. Jakobsh (2005) “Sikh Ritual Identity: Who Speaks for Sikh Women,” Chakra – tidskrift för indiska religioner,, Theme, ‘Modern Media and Texts in Indian Religions’, No. 1, Vol. 3.
Doris R. Jakobsh (2004) “Constructing Sikh Identities: Authorities, Virtual and Imagined,” International Journal of Punjab Studies No. 1 and 2, Vol. 10 (January), pp. 127-142.
Grants and Awards:
· UW/SSHRC Explore Grant awarded, “Empowered Lives: women, transformation and the world’s religions”, 2022
. Recipient, Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, 2013
. Recipient, Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, 2010
. Academic Achievement, University of Waterloo Alumni Award, Department of Religious Studies, 2008