Megan Adamson Sijapati

In Professor Sijapati’s courses, students learn about Islam, South Asia, Hinduism, religion and modernity, violence & non-violence, identity, religious revivalism, cultural politics, power, minorities and minoritization, and religious nationalism. At Gettysburg, she is an Affiliate of the Public Policy Program, and contributes to Middle East and Islamic Studies, International and Global Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Megan Adamson Sijapati’s two primary areas of research are religious identities and practices among minority communities in South Asia, and the intersections of embodiment and epistemology in contemporary Islam and Sufism. She is the co-editor and author of Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas: Conceptualizing the Global Ummah (with J. Fewkes, Routledge Press 2021) and Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya (with J.V. Birkenholtz, Routledge Press, 2016) and the author of Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation (Routledge Press, 2013 2nd edition).

She is the recipent of the JCCTL Excellence in Teaching Award in 2019.

Professor Sijapati currently serves on the International Advisory Board for the University of Nepal, the country's first liberal arts university.