Nepal is familiar territory for Prof. Megan Adamson Sijapati, who teaches courses on Islam, Hinduism and religious traditions of South Asia, religious conflict and cooperation, and religions in modernity.

She first traveled to Nepal in 1994 and has lived there several times, most recently in 2005-2006 as Fulbright Hays scholar. More recently, she devoted a summer to furthering her research in Nepal and traveling to Oman and Pakistan with the support of a Gettysburg College Faculty Research and Development grant.

She came to Gettysburg College from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she completed her doctorate in religious studies with a focus on South Asian religions and Islam and an emphasis in global studies. Her doctoral dissertation, Shaping Muslim Identities: Conflict, Alterity and Islamic Revivalism in Nepal examined movements in the Kathmandu valley and the local and global factors that affect them.

Her courses include Introduction to Islam, Religious Diversity and Conflict in South Asia, Islam in the Modern World, and Introduction to Religions of South Asia.