The Smithsonian Institution is the nation's premier collection of museums and serves as America's official historians. Together we have the chance to create a program dedicated to telling the Sikh American story as a part of their collection on the National Mall - the iconic heart of Washington, DC, and our Nation's Capital.

We have received a commitment from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History's new Center for the Understanding of Religion in American History to establish a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focused on the Sikh community in the United States. However, the fellowship is currently unfunded and needs your support to make it a reality.

The fellowship represents dedicated resources toward documenting and telling the story of Sikhism in the U.S. in a permamemt way the museum has never before been able to do. Your generosity will support the fellow’s travel, research, and related public programming that will take place in the new space for the Center for the Understanding of Religion in American History, opening at the museum in 2025. The fellow will work to facilitate increased representation of Sikh communities in the exhibitions, programs, and collections of the Smithsonian.