Dr. Shamara Wettimuny is the Junior Research Fellow in History at The Queen’s College,
University of Oxford. A Beit Scholar at Brasenose College, she is currently working on a book
on the history of ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka, which is to be published by Oxford
University Press’s Historical Monographs series. She is the founder of Itihas, an organisation
that promotes history education reform in Sri Lanka.