Nira Konjit Wickramasinghe is professor of modern South Asian studies at Leiden University[1] in the Netherlands and a well known international academic.

She was a professor in the department of history and international relations, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, until 2009.

She has been a World Bank Robert McNamara fellow, a Fulbright senior scholar at New York University, a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and more recently British Academy Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.

She is currently working on a history of the reception of the sewing machine in colonial Sri Lanka, a topic which she researched while on sabbatical at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Princeton University in 2008–2009.

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