Background
Asoka Bandarage was born on March 27, 1950 in Sri Lanka.
University of Sri Lanka
Bryn Mawr College
In 1975, she received a master's degree in Religion from Yale University, and in 1980, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.
University of Sri Lanka
Bryn Mawr College
In 1975, she received a master's degree in Religion from Yale University, and in 1980, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.
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1983
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1997
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2013
Asoka Bandarage was born on March 27, 1950 in Sri Lanka.
Bandarage has bachelor's degrees from the University of Sri Lanka and Bryn Mawr College. In 1975, she received a master's degree in Religion from Yale University, and in 1980, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.
Asoka Bandarage began her teaching career at Brandeis University, where she taught from 1979 to 1985. In fall 1988, she taught Sociology and International Relations as the Hubert H. Humphrey Professor at Macalester College. From 1989 to 2006, she taught at Mount Holyoke College, where she received tenure and chaired the Women’s Studies Program from 1995 to 1997.
From 2005 to 2012, Asoka taught at Georgetown University, in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Government Department, and the Public Policy Institute, and from 2010 to 2013 she also taught at American University. She has since been a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a visiting lecturer at Colorado College.
She has headed the Women's Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College and also taught at institutions including Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute in Washington, DC. She is also a yoga instructor. Bandarage has served on the boards of Critical Asian Studies, The National Advisory Council on South Asian Affairs, and Interfaith Moral Action on Climate.
Bandarage is the author of several publications, including articles, books, and encyclopedia entries on South Asia, global political-economy, ethnicity, gender, population, ecology and other related topics. She also blogs at the Huffington Post and has led forums and addressed the United Nations General Assembly.
Asoka Bandarage wrote "Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands, 1833-86" as a dissertation topic for her Ph.D. Meant primarily “for university collections," according to a Choice reviewer, this book is a thorough analysis of the development of the Sri Lankan central highlands in the nineteenth century into a plantation economy under European influence.
Bandarage describes the precolonial economic and social conditions, the transformation of the economy, and the subsequent effects of colonialism. According to Ronald J. Herring in Contemporary Sociology, “[Bandarage] seeks to mediate between the world views of imperial apologists and nationalists, concluding in the nationalist camp.” L. Ananda Wickremeratne in the Journal of Asian Studies wrote, “As books on Sri Lanka multiply, it is stimulating to encounter one concerned with wide perspectives... This volume is a valuable addition to our understanding of the economic processes that transformed Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century.”
Bandarage is a co-founder of the Committee on Women and Population and Health.
