Professor Ramani Hettiarachchi, Professor in History had her primary and secondary education at Aluthgama Maha Vidyalaya. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in History from the University of Peradeniya where she also obtained a Master of Arts Degree in the same field. Consequently, she attained her Ph.D. at the University of Kel, The Plantation Economy and Social Formation among Indian Immigrant Laborers of Sri Lanka, being her major area of study. She has been Awarded Post-doctoral Fellowship: Erasmus Mundus Fellowship by the European Commission for her work entitled The Christianizing the Immigrant Plantation Workers in Colonial and Contemporary Sri Lanka; The Mission and its Contradiction, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2015-2016. Professor Ramani Hettiarachchi was offered Research Fellowship by EXPERTS4 Asia Project, Erasmus Mundus by the European Commission, University of Gottingen, Germany in 2014 the title of the Research being Fraternity, Caste and Buddhist Culture in Sri Lanka. Further, she gained Research Fellowship from the Indo-American Centre, Hyderabad, India in 2005 of which the title is The Trade Union and Politics in the USA. She was also awarded Visiting Research Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, USA, the title of which is Slave Labour, History of South Carolina followed by The University Research Grant for Parameters of Colonial Urban Development The City of Colombo, which has been offered by research grants By University Research Council, University of Peradeniya, 2017-2018. Currently, she is holding the position of Deputy Proctor of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Peradeniya while being noted for her role as a Board of Nominee, Faculty of Arts, Board of study for social sciences in PGIHS. Equally important is her dedication in the academic context. Her main academic contribution has been towards Portuguese, Dutch, and British Colonialism in Asia and South East Asia. She dedicated her full time to conducting many programs to empower the plantation labor community who until this point remained inarticulate through the deliverance of various programs. Not only did she make a subjective impact but also a practical impact in this context.
About Me
Education
Post Doc.
University of Uppsala (Sweden)
2015
PhD
University of Kelaniya
2012
MA
University of Peradeniya
1999
BA
University of Peradeniya
1986
Current Positions
Professor - Department of History, University of Peradeniya
2019 - To Present
Positions Held
Deputy Proctor - Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya
2019 - 2020
Coordinator - Revised syllabi of Courses of Master of Arts degree Programme in History of the PGIHS
2019
Senior Lecturer (Grade 11) - niversity of Peradeniya, Department of History
1999 - 2019
Visiting Research Fellow - University of Uppsala (Sweden)
2015 - 2016
Visiting Research Fellow - University of Gottingen, Germany
2014
General Secretary - Alumni Association, University Peradeniya
2014
Senior Student Counselor, - Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya
2014
Chief Examiner- Advanced Level Examination - Department of Education, Ministry of Education, Isurupaya
2011 - 2012
The Warden, - Ramanathan Hall,University of Peradeniya
2000 - 2007
Visiting Research Fellow - University of South Carolina, USA
2004
Visiting Lecturer - Post Graduate Institute of Social Sciences
2001
Assistant Lecturer ( permanent) - Department of History, University of Peradeniya
1989 - 2001
Memberships
Life member - of Alumni Association, University of Peradeniya, 2003 to present
Member - The Technical Evaluation Committee, 2014
Member - The Committee on Post Graduate Curriculum Revision of the Department of History, University of Peradeniya, 2017
Member - The Under Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee of the Department of History, University of Peradeniya, 2017
Member - The Departmental Subcommittee to facilitate the transition from the old syllabus to New Syllabus
Member - The Committee to prepare a proposal for the Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Multi-Cultural Studies, 2019
Member of Scholarship Committee - Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, 2017,2018,2019
Committee Member - Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Arts Projects, University of Peradeniya, 2013
Writing Committee Member - Self Evaluation report, Department of History , University of Peradeniya, 2017
Subcommittee Member - General Convocation, University of Peradeniya, 2014
Organizing Member - International Research Conference, University of Peradeniya, 2014
Sub-Committee member - International Research Conference, University of Peradeniya, 2014
Organizing Committee member - Golden Jubilee Celebration, University of Peradeniya, 2003
Committee Member - The Multi-Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, 2017
The Editorial Coordinating Committee Member - ICHSS , Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, 2018
Member - The Review Team, 1st International Conference of Social Science (ICSSH) Conference, Department of History, University of Peradeniya, 2017
Member - The teaching panel of the post Graduate program in the Department of History from 2011 to present.
Member - The Teaching Panel for the Certificate Course in History for Teachers in History, Faculty of Arts, From 05.03.2011 to 30. 09. 2011
Member - The Committee on Post Graduate Curriculum Revision of the Department of History, University of Peradeniya.
Member - The Under Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee of the Department of History, University of Peradeniya
Member - The Committee on Post Graduate Curriculum Revision of the Department of History, University of Peradeniya
Awards
Awarded University Research Grant - University Research Council, University of Peradeniya
2017- 2018
Awarded Post-doctoral Fellowship: Erasmus Mundus Fellowship - The Christianizing the Immigrant Plantation Workers in Colonial and Contemporary Sri Lanka; The Mission and its Contradiction, University of Uppsala, Sweden
2015-2016
Awarded Research Fellowship - European Commission, University of Gottingen, Germany
2014
Awarded Research Fellowship - The US Embassy, in Colombo and Indo-American Centre, Hyderabad, India
2005
Awarded Research Fellowship - Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, USA
Publications
Hettiarachchi, Ramani (2004) Fascism and Nazism, in Mandis, Rohanadeera, Mangala Ilangasinghe, M.U.de Silva, Malani Endagama, K.M.P. Kulasekere and Rohana Kumara (eds), History of Europe from 1500 BC to 1950, Education Publication Department, Colombo, pp. 245- 256. ( No. 2004/ C/ Athi/ 01/ 10000) . (A Text book Chapter for A/L and Higher Education. Education Publication Department, Ministry of Education in Isurupaya.)
Hettiarachchi, Ramani (2018) Srimath Anagarika Dharmapalas Contribution Towards The Buddhist And Social Purity in Rev. Rangama Chandawimala, Dooldeniye Gnanarathana, Lim Ai Ling, Yap Yang Ling, Jenny Quek, and Grace Hoo Hui Chin (eds), ANUSSATI: A Collection Of Essays To Commemorate The Silver Jubilee Of Buddhist And Pali College, Singapore, pp. 275- 288.
Hettiarachchi, Ramani (2015) The Foreign Influence and its Challenges relating to the Sacred Tooth Relic,( From 4 BC TO 16TH Century in H.M.D.R.Herath and Nimal Wijesiri (eds), Pujaneeya Dalanda Sanskruthiya, Issue. 10, Ministry of Central Province Agricultural and Central Environmental Affairs, Kandy, pp. 52-63.
Hettiarachchi, Ramani (2014) A Historical Study of the Caste System and Social Structure of the Kandyan Era in Ven. Wewala Dhammaloka, Kalundawe Chandawimala and Bolliyadda Dhamma Kusala (eds), Pravacana, Volume 5, No. 2, Bhikku University of Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, PP.161- 184. ISBN- 978-955-1867-05-8, ISSN- 2345-9999. (Reviewed Journal).
Hettiarachchi, Ramani (2005) The Colonialism and Health Policy affecting workers in Sri Lankan Plantation Sector in Joshua Fisher, Kathleen Millar, and Alex Nading (eds), Anthropology Work Review, No 27 (3), California University Press, USA, pp. 14-1 (Printed copy and the online publication- Online ISSN:1548-1417).
Conferences
The International Forum for Social Sciences and Health Congress
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, The Colonialism and Health Policy in Sri Lanka under the British rule, World Congress: Health Challenges of the Third Millennium, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, PP 143-156, August 2005
The Multi-Disciplinary International Conference
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, Implementation on Sirima - Shastri pact (1964): The Role of Pressure groups, International Conference on the Occasion of 50th anniversary of Independence of Sri Lanka, University of Peradeniya, PP. 1- 19, Feb. 23- 25, 1998.
Indian ocean institute, ZIORI Conference on the Indian Ocean
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, The Process of Social Formation Among Indian Plantation workers In Sri Lanka, Burma and Fiji, Dialogue between civilizations, Zanzibar, PP. .1- 11, Aug. 15-17, 2008
International Conference of Writers and Intellectuals, Sufism and Peace,
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, War Women and Peace in Sri Lanka, Organized by Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad, Pakistan. pp. 20-21,14- 16, March, 2010.
Twenty First Conference of the international Association of Historian of Asia, IAHA
Ramani Hettiarchchi, The Health under the Colonial in Sri Lanka, National University of Singapore, Singapore, June,2010.
International Conference on State and Society in South Asia
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, The Marxist Trade Union Movement and Its Impact on Indian Immigrant Laborers of Sri Lanka. A Historical Perspective, Department of History, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh & Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata , India, p. 111, 15- 16 March 2019
The 3rd South Asian Conference on Religion, State and Society in South Asia
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, Woman and Buddhism in the Kandyan Kingdom in Sri Lanka,A Historical Perspective, Department of History, Punjabi University, Patiala, India, pp. 37- 38, 16-10, October, 2015
The 6th research Conference
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, Masculinity and Gender in the British Plantation system in Sri Lanka", The Royal Asiatic Society, of Sri Lanka, Colombo, p. 105, 28th 30th , March, 2013
Centre for Women's Studies,
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, The Living Condition among the Indian Immigration Plantation Women in Sri Lanka , BMICH, Colombo, 2001.
The Annual Research Session
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, Factors which influence the Revival of irrigation in the Mid- Nineteenth century in Sri Lanka University of Peradeniya, 2001
Annual Research Session
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, Export Crops of Sri Lanka under the Dutch East India Company, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, pp. 9-11, 2005
Buddhist International Conference
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, The Attitude of the Missionaries towards Sri Lankan Society during the 19th Century , Asgiri Buddhist Center. Kandy, 2010.
International conference on social work-Social development and sustainable Development Goals
Hettiarachchi, Ramani, Women and Motherhood in Colonial Asia, Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya and International Consortium for Social Development-Asia Pacific,29-30 September 2016.
International Conference on the Humanities and the Social Sciences ICHSS
Hettiarachchi, Ramani,Christianity and Social Mobility of Indian Diaspora, Extended Abstract, ICSSH, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Development, Diversity and Harmony through Knowledge and Innovation, pp. 213- 215, 2018
The 8th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management
Hettiarachchi, Ramani and Hettiarachchi, T. S, City Plans and Construction Technologies in Colonial Sri Lanka, pp.10-17, 2017
Research Interests
Education
Ethnic Studies
Indigenous Studies
Colonialism (Portuguese, Dutch and British.)
Gender Studies
Religious Studies (Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity.)
Diaspora Studies