N. Gerald Barrier

Professor Emeritus and
Middlebush Chair in the Social Sciences, 2000-2005
Ph.D., Duke University
area: South Asia
phone: 573-882-9466
email: barriern@missouri.edu

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Duke University

Professor Emeritus N. Gerald Barrier has continued to be active in teaching, research and related professional matters. Besides Writing Intensive courses in Nonviolence in Modern World History and Communalism in Modern India, his teaching has included a revised course on Gandhi and His Times and two new courses: The Partition of India and Women in Indian History. Barrier's research continues to focus on recent Sikh history.

After publishing a co-edited volume on Sikh identity in 1996, he wrote an article on Sikh politics and organizations, published in a volume celebrating the life of JS Grewal (the most eminent Sikh historian of the modern period), and wrote several reviews and review articles for scholarly journals.

In 1997, Barrier gave a keynote address at the International Sikh Studies Conference, the University of Michigan, and presented papers on contemporary Sikh legal cases relating to Gurdwara governance. He has co-edited the volume of proceedings from that conference, consisting of 16 chapters on Sikh identity, and wrote the introduction, revised keynote address, and an article on the Fairfax Gurdwara case where he served as a major expert witness( politics, authority, and congregational practice). He has also published articles in prominent journals in the fields of Indian and Sikh studies, and currently is completing a monograph on a transitional period of modern Sikhism, 1900-1920: Competing Visions of Modern Sikhism: The Chief Khalsa Kiwan and its Opponents.

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