RAJBIR SINGH JUDGE
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Rajbir Singh Judge is a scholar of South Asia, Postcolonial Theory, and Modern World History. He received his PhD in History at University of California, Davis in 2018. He was then a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University until Fall 2020 when he joined the Department of History at California State University, Long Beach. 

Judge is the author of Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2024) and has published widely in numerous academic outlets. He is currently the Editor of the Sikh Research Journal as well as a member of the editorial boards of History of the Present, Sikh Formations, and The History Teacher.

He is currently at work on his second book manuscript, titled A Critique of Contextual Reason. He was awarded a membership in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 2024-2025 to complete this manuscript.

He has taught a wide array of courses on South Asian History, World History, and Critical Theory.

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