Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri

• Former Sri Lanka Chair (Summer term 2017) 
• Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of of History at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Research

Social transformation in agrarian societies, history and ideology, European colonialism in Asia, post-colonial state-building and ethno-nationalism

CV

Dewasiri received his BA and M.Phil. from University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and his PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands.