Harpreet Singh

He also established the Harvard Sikh Center to strengthen institutional presence for Sikh scholarship and community.

As a scholar, Dr. Singh's research reveals how religious communities in Mughal Punjab built political authority through cultural production. He is the author of The Ẓafarnāma of Guru Gobind Singh: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Harvard Oriental Series, 2025) and the forthcoming Vernacular Authority: Language, Script, and Political Imagination in Mughal Panjab. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. from Harvard's Committee on the Study of Religion and M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School.

Dr. Singh’s commitment to bridging scholarship and public service extends to numerous leadership roles. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Sikh Coalition's Board of Trustees, Chair of the Board of Nishkam Media, and a Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions. He also serves on Harvard's Board of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life and advisory boards at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Pluralism Project at Harvard, and the Institute for Asian American Studies. His public-facing online course, Sikhism Through Its Scriptures, has seen over 54,000 enrollments from 180 countries.

Through this work, he demonstrates his conviction that scholarship finds its highest purpose when it empowers the communities it studies.