Signe Cohen is an Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Missouri. She received her MA in Sanskrit from the University of Oslo and her PhD in Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include Text and Authority in the Older Upaniṣads (2008), the award-winning edited volume The Upaniṣads: A Complete Guide (2018), and Textual Criticism and Sacred Texts: A Comparative Method (2023).