Past Member
Nira Wickramasinghe
Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies; Funding provided by the Hetty Goldman Membership Fund
From
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Nira Wickramasinghe is interested in issues of belonging and everyday life of subalterns under colonialism in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean world. At IAS, she will be working on a book tentatively called "Slavery and Forgetting in the Indian Ocean World" that seeks to understand genealogies of loss and retention.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
University of Oxford
D.Phil.
1989
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Maîtrise
1985
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Licence
1984
Honors
2023-2027
NWO (Dutch Research Council) – Open Competition grant : ‘Forgotten Lineages. Afterlives of Dutch Slavery in the Indian Ocean’.
2021
American Historical Association J.F Richards Prize for South Asian History book
Appointments
Leiden University
2010
Chair/Professor of Modern South Asian Studies
University of Colombo
2003–2009
Professor of History
University of Colombo
1990–2003
Senior Lecturer