Gurinder Singh Mann is a Punjabi-American scholar and professor of Sikh studies, and the author of multiple books on Sikh religion and society. Mann taught religion at Columbia University from 1988 to 1999 and then held the Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Sikh Studies from 1999 to 2015 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He came under fire for alleged sexual harassment in 2013, retired from Santa Barbara in 2015, and founded the Global Institute for Sikh Studies in New York City, which he presently directs.