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Place of Birth: Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
About Nira Wickramasinghe
- Nira Konjit Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University 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.
- 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.
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