PhD, University of British Columbia, 2024
M.A. University of Toronto, 2018
J.D. Faculty of Law University of Ottawa, 2016
BA Political Science, Carleton University, 2010
Jvala Singh is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, for Punjabi and a sessional instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, teaching courses on religion in India and Sikh history. He completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia, where he explored pre-colonial Sikh historical narratives. This research examined literature in Punjabi and Brajbhasha from the 18th and 19th centuries, building off his previous M.A. research completed at the University of Toronto, where he focused on Sikh Brajbhasha versions of Sanskrit epics, such as the Ramayana.
In furthering accessibility of pre-colonial Sikh Brajbhasha texts, Jvala Singh runs a podcast, the Suraj Podcast, where each episode is a chapter summary in English of the voluminous Suraj Prakash, a historical narrative covering the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus. written by Santokh Singh. You can find his lectures on various topics on his YouTube page.