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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Vidyamali Samarasinghe

Vidyamali Samarasinghe
Ph.D., Cambridge University
B.A., University of Ceylon
E-mail: svidy@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1487

Professor Samarasinghe teaches and researches gender and development, population and migration issues in developing countries, social science methodology, and field survey methodology. Her regional focus of research is in South Asia. She is the co-editor of Women at the Crossroads: A Sri Lankan Perspective (Vikas, 1990) and Women at the Center: Gender and Development Issues for the 1990's (Kumarian, 1993). She is the co-author of A Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka (Scarecrow Press, 1997). Professor Samarasinghe has conducted several field surveys on tea plantation women in Sri Lanka, income inequalities among farming communities, and female adolescent food allocation patterns in Sri Lanka. Her most recent book is Female Sex Trafficking in Asia: The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World (Routledge, 2007).

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