Professor
BA (Colombo), MA (Colombo), PhD (Macquarie-Australia)Social Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Head of the Department
Contact:
Central Campus, 1st Floor, HSS Building, Nawala, Nugegoda
Office: 0112881218, Ext: 218 Mobile: 0707500255
E-mail: apiya@ou.ac.lk antonpiyarathne@gmail.com
BA (Colombo), MA (Colombo), PhD (Macquarie-Australia)
Last Updated on 1 year
Areas of Specialization:Anthropology, Sociology
Programme Coordination:Mphil/PhD Coordinator
Researches:2017. Review of The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka. In Australian Journal of Anthropology 28 (3): 384-385. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17576547/2017/28/3
2017. The Contribution of Religious Rituals to Link Conflicting Sinhalas and Tamils in Sri Lanka. Research Process 5 (1 & 2): 47-56. http://srfaurangabad.org/researchprocess.html
2017. Collective Ritual as a Way of Transcending Ethno-religious Divide: The Case of Kataragama PŽ�da YŽ�trŽ� in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences 40 (1): 41-52. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v40i1.7500. Published on 29 June 2017.
2014. Construction of Social Lives in Ethno-politically Ruptured Sri Lanka. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity 4 (6), Pp. 443-450.
2013. Native Subjectivity as a Means for Uncovering the Truth Human and Minority Rights in Sri Lanka. Humanity 2013 – Subjective/ Objective. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/humanity/2013-humanity-journal.html.
2011. Longing for Equal Status: Impact of Housing Interventions on Identity and Status of Indian Origin Tamil Resettlers from Two Selected Plantations in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences 31/32(1-2): 47-63.