GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra (Sharn) is a Historian, educator, storyteller, and founder of Belonging Matters Consulting. Sharn worked as Coordinator at the South Asian Studies Institute at UFV for more than 12 years and as co-curator and co-manager of the Sikh Heritage Museum, National Historic Site and Gur Sikh Temple (gurdwara). Sharn became the first Sikh person to complete her PhD from the Department of History at UBC in 2022. Her PhD looks at the affective experiences of museum visitors through a critical race theory lens with the dissertation is titled “Museums as Spaces of Belonging: Racialized Power in the Margins.”
Sharn is a passionate activist, building bridges between community and academia through museum work. She has been featured in the Knowledge Network series “B.C: An Untold History,” is co-author of "Challenging Racist BC: 150 Years and Counting," and has been featured on local, and international podcasts and media.
TOPIC: BEGAMPURA: THE SIKH VISION OF AN ANTI-CASTE WORLD
