demel@kitlv.nl
Sulakshana de Mel has received her training as a Social and Cultural Anthropologist from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Equipped with over 19 years of work experience in the development sector, she has worked in different parts of South Asia and in Germany.
During the last 8 years she worked as a Technical Advisor at GIZ Sri Lanka and has given leadership to a team that is dedicated to the promotion of a historical dialogue and memory culture.
In her formative years of education in Mexico and later in other parts of the world she has been exposed very early to the intrinsic cultural values in communities that pose challenges to true reconciliation. She strategically uses this experience in her present work.
As a PhD researcher at KITLV she will be focusing on the Sri Lankan Malay community under the project Trajectories of Taste: An analytical framework of culinary change.
Research project
Trajectories of Taste: An analytical framework of culinary change
