Dr. Anton Piyarathne
- Sri Lanka Chair (April - September 2018)
- Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka.
Research
- Ethnoreligious Nationalism
- Nation Building
- National Integration and Disintegration
- Ethnicity and Ethnic Boundary Negotiations
- Religious Pluralism and Religious Syncretism
- Religious Rituals and Pilgrimage
- Urban Religious Practices
- Ethnic Conflict and Peace Making
- Development and Resettlement
- Social Stratification Systems
- Existential Realities
Short CV
- Senior Lecturer (Grade I) in Anthropology/Sociology, The Open University of Sri Lanka (Current Position)
- PhD in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia, 2014.
Thesis Title: Constructing Commongrounds: Everyday Lifeworlds Beyond Politicised Ethnicities in Sri Lanka. - MA in Sociology, University of Colombo, 2005.
Dissertation Title: A Sociological Analysis of the Changing Social Identity of Estate Tamil Workers. - B.A (Special Degree) in Sociology, 1998.
Dissertation Title: “Changing Occupational Patterns between Two Generations of the Indian Descent Plantation Tamil Workers in Sri Lanka: A Sociological Analysis”.