Eleanor Nesbitt
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Eleanor Margaret Nesbitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 (age 73–74) Bournemouth, UK |
| Known for | Research in religious socialisation, Hinduism, Sikhism, Punjab Studies |
| Title | Professor |
| Spouse | Ram Krishan |
| Parent(s) | Martha Eleanor Nesbitt, William Ralph Nesbitt |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | The religious lives of Sikh children in Coventry (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Professor Robert Jackson |
| Influences | W.H. McLeod, John Bowker, Robert Jackson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Religious Studies |
| Institutions | University of Warwick |
Eleanor Nesbitt (born 1951) is a British emeritus professor in Education Studies at the University of Warwick, and a founding member of the UK's Punjab Research Group and the Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies as well as coediting Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism.[1][2][3]
Eleanor Nesbitt was born in 1951 to Martha Eleanor Nesbitt and William Ralph Nesbitt.[4][5] She attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth before studying classics and theology at Girton College, Cambridge.[4][6][7]
Career
Nesbitt completed teacher training at Oxford before travelling to India.[4] There, she taught in Nainital from 1974 to 1977.[4][6] After returning to England in 1977 she spent two years teaching in a comprehensive school in Coventry, and subsequently carried out research in Nottingham.[4] She became professor in education studies at the University of Warwick.[6][when?]
Nesbitt published studies on Sikh children in Coventry in 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, and 2009.[8] Her 1993 book, titled Hindu children in Britain and co-authored with Robert Jackson, is considered by several scholars in religious studies, including Dermot Killingley, as important in that field.[9][10][11] In 1998 she published an article on British, Asian, and Hindu identity.[12] In 2001 she published her research on what Hindus in the UK believed.[13][14]
Her 2024 book, titled Sikh: Two Centuries of Western Women's Art & Writing, documents Sikh history through western women's encounters with Sikhs and their culture.[15][16]
Awards and honours
In 2003 Nesbitt delivered the Swarthmore Lecture, and in 2009 gave the George Richardson lecture.[6][17]
