Doris R. Jakobsh (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Dr. Doris R. Jakobsh
Wilfrid Laurier University
Distance Education
Waterloo, ON, Canada
and
Renison College
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada

Mailing Address:
73 Homewood Avenue
Kitchener, ON, N2M 1X1, Canada

Phone:  519-585-3239
email:  djakobsh@golden.net

Description of work:

Publications:

"The Construction of Gender in History and Religion:  The Sikh Case," in
Mandakranta Bose, ed., Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval and
modern India, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 270-286.

"Conversion in the Sikh Tradition," in M. Darrol Bryant and Christopher
Lamb, eds., Religious Conversion:  Contemporary Practices and
Controversies, London, Cassell Publishers, 1999, pp. 166-174.

"Where are the Women?  Making Room for Women in Sikh Studies:  A North
American Perspective,"J Punjab History Conference Proceedings:
Twenty-ninth Session, 1998.

"Gender Issues in Sikh Studies:  Hermeneutics of Affirmation or
Hermeneutics of Suspicion?"  in Pashaura Singh and N. Gerald Barrier,
eds., The Transmission of Sikh Heritage in the Diaspora, New Delhi,
Manohar, 1996, pp. 45-72.

M. Darrol Bryant and Doris R. Jakobsh, A Canadian Interfaith Directory,
1993, Renison College, University of Waterloo, 1993.

Ph.D Thesis,
Dr. Harjot Oberoi, Thesis Supervisor:
"Relocating Gender in Sikh History:  Transformation, Meaning and
Identity."
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
1999

Conferences:

"What's in a Name?  The Singh Sabha and the Feminization of Ritual."
Penn South Asia Forum
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2000

"Of Colony, Gender and Sexuality:  The Sikhs and the Raj."
Asian Studies Lecture Series
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2000

"Race and Gender in a Frontier Society:  The Sikhs and the politics of
similarity under the Raj."
New Perspectives in Sikh Studies Conference
SOAS and De Montfort University, London
1998

"Where are the Women?  Making Room for Women in Sikh Studies:  A North
American Perspective."
Punjab History Conference, Twenty-ninth Session
Punjabi University, Punjab, India

"Gender, Militarism and the Sikh Tradition."
The South Asia Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN)
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia

Teaching:

"History of Modern Asia"
Department of History
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Winter, 2000

"World Religions in Cultural Perspective"
Distance Education
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario
Spring, Fall, 2000

"Sikhism:  Origin and Development"
Renison College
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Winter, 2001

Other:

Conference Organizing Committee:
"Sikhs in the Diaspora:  New Century, New Challenges"
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
May 25-27, 2001