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Email: dominic.esler.11@ucl.ac.uk
Year of start: 2011
Subject: Social Anthropology
Research Topic
Catholicism among Sri Lankan Tamils
Supervisor
Alex Pillen
Rebecca Empson
Overview
My project focuses on the location of Catholicism and Christianity more generally in the social life of Sri Lankan Tamils, in Sri Lanka and abroad. I am also interested in the relationship between Christian institutions and Sri Lanka’s other religions.
I also have a strong interest in Tamil and Sinhala, and run a blog on learning Tamil here.
Research interests
- Anthropology of Sri Lanka and South Asia
- Religion in South Asia
- Sri Lankan diasporas
- Tamil and Sinhala
- Linguistic anthropology
- Beyond these topics I am interested in the study of South Asian literature as well as science fiction (whether through an anthropological lense or otherwise)
Academic Background/Education
2010: MA Social Anthropology, SOAS
2008: BA (Hons) Russian and English, Trinity College Dublin
Honours and Awards
2010: Best Overall Masters Degree in Anthropology, SOAS
2008: Greenwood Memorial Prize (for Russian literary or cultural studies), Trinity College, Dublin
Publications
2011: Soviet Science Fiction of the 1920s, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
Funding
ESRC Studentship
