Thilaka Piyaseeli Meththananda, Professor in History, (cadre) had her primary and secondary education at Holy Cross College Gampaha before completing an honours degree in History at the University of Peradeniya.  She subsequently obtained her D.Phil from the University of Oxford UK.  She has spent one of her sabbaticals in the UK as Commonwealth Research fellow.

BA (Cey.), D.Phil (Oxford) UK

Head, Department of History 2002-2004; Resident Warden 1979-1989,   Member, Board of Discipline, University of Peradeniya. (Statutory body) 1985-1987; Student Counselor. University of Peradeni

Member of the Sri Lanka National Archives Advisory Board. 

Life Member Royal Asiatic Society of Sri  Lanka; Member, Sri Lanka Historical Association., Vice-President, 2003 to 2004., Council member, 2000 - to date., Member, Oxford Society of Sri Lanka. 1998 - To date, Member, Sri Lanka Association of Buddhist Studies. 2002, Member, Sri Lanka Federation of University Women 1981, Member, Alumni Association of the University of Peradeniya. 2000, Life Member Historical Association of Sri Lanka.

Modern Sri Lankan History. Women’s History. Constitutional and Political History of Modern Sri Lanka. Study of Sources for Sri Lankan Studies.

Meththananda, Thilaka. 2004. Reports of Commissions of the British period in Sri Lanka as sources for historical research. Proceedings of the Seminar held to commemorate the National Archives Week, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15th Nov. 2004.
Position of women in Kandyan society with special reference to the 18th & 19th Centuries.Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Women’s Studies organized by the Centre for Women and Research (CENWOR), Colombo, Sri Lanka on 20th -23rd March 2004.
Sources for writing the history of women in Sri Lanka.
Proceedings of the Seminar held to commemorate the National Archives Week, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 10th Nov. 2002.
The implementation of the Marriage registration Ordinance in 1859. 
Lecture delivered in Sinhala at the Sri Lanka Historical Association under the Special Lecture Series, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka on July 1997.
Robert Knox’s Historical Relation and the position of women in Kandyan society.
Article in Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. 20(1&2): 106- 132. 1994
Women & Violence: Problems and Issues.
Paper presented at the I.C.E.S., Seminar on Women and violence on 8th March 1991 (International Women’s day) Kandy.
Images of Women in Sri Lankan Society: The views of 19th century missionaries. In: Asian Panorama:
 K.M. De Silva, Sirima Kiribamune C.R. de Silva (eds.) Vikas, 1990.
A selection of papers presented at the Conference of the International Association of Historians (IAHA) of Asia. 
“Women in Sri Lanka Tradition and Change” in Women at the Crossroads” - A Sri Lankan Perspective.
Sirima Kiribamune, Vidyamali Samarasinghe (Eds.) I.C.E.S. Vikas, New Delhi, 1990.