Biography
Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, FRAS, is a Visiting Professor (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan), a Visiting Fellow (University of Cambridge, UK) and a Senior Research Fellow (School of Advanced Study, University of London). Previously, she was a Research Associate in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (King’s College London). Her publications include six monographs, two edited books, one co‐authored book, and documentary films concerning migration, commerce and cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean within a historical, ethnomusicological and linguistic frame.