Dr. Pankaj Jain was the founding co-chair of India Initiatives Group and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He compiled the history of Jains and Hindus in America for his latest monograph, Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora. Currently, he is translating Jain Darshan, a monumental text on the philosophy of Jainism, and is working on his fourth monograph, Makers of Modern Jainism. He is co-editing the Encyclopedia of Hinduism as well as a volume on Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion. He is also the author of award-winning Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability. His articles have appeared in several academic journals and on the Huffington Post, Washington Post’s forum On Faith, Times of India’s Speaking Tree, and Patheos. Dr. Jain is widely quoted in various American and Indian media outlets. In July 2020, the New York Times interviewed him, and in 2019 Morgan Freeman interviewed him for the section on Jainism in the Netflix series The Story of God.