Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira Konjit Wickramasinghe is professor of modern South Asian studies at Leiden University[1] in the Netherlands and a well known international academic. She was a professor in the department of history and international relations, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, until 2009. She grew up in Paris and studied at the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne from 1981 to 1984 and at the University of Oxford from 1985 to 1989, where she earned her doctorate in modern history.[2] She joined the University of Colombo in 1990 and taught there until 2009. She has been a World Bank Robert McNamara fellow, a Fulbright senior scholar at New York University, a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and more recently British Academy Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. She is currently working on a history of the reception of the sewing machine in colonial Sri Lanka, a topic which she researched while on sabbatical at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Princeton University in 2008–2009.[3]

Nira Wickramasinghe
Born
Colombo, Sri Lanka
NationalitySri Lankan
Other namesNira Konjit Samarasinghe
EducationD.Phil.
OccupationUniversity Professor

Select publications

Wickramasinghe has published the following books:[4]

  • Sri Lanka in the Modern Age. A History'. Revised edn. New York, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015
  • Metallic Modern. Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka', Oxford: Berghahn Publ. 2014
  • Sri Lanka in the modern age: A history of contested identities. London: Hurst & Co. and Honolulu: University of Hawaii press, 2006.
  • Civil society in Sri Lanka: New circles of power. New Delhi: Sage Publications, c2001.[5]
  • Ethnic politics in colonial Sri Lanka, 1927–1947''. New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House, 1995.
  • University space and values: Three essays''. Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies Colombo, 2005.
  • L'Invention du Vetement national au Sri Lanka. Habiller le corps colonise''. Paris: Karthala Presse, 2006.

References

  1. "Prof.dr. N.K. (Nira) Wickramasinghe". university of Leiden. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  2. Nira Wickramasinghe, openDemocracy.
  3. "Prof.dr. N.K. (Nira) Wickramasinghe". tanap.
  4. Nira Wickramasinghe, Pipl.
  5. The Hindu, State and civil society Archived 2004-03-23 at the Wayback Machine.


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