Sumathy Sivamohan

<h2>Awards and Honors</h2>
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<li>The Best Film (Jury) prize at the World Indian Film Festival Hyderabad 2018 for the film Sons and Fathers</li>
<li>Teaching Award granted by Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, March-May 2017</li>
<li>Erasmus Mundus Fellowship Award to be held at Univ. of Edinburgh for one month in 2016-2017</li>
<li>Award granted by GIZ and European Union for film on Music of the minorities. 2016</li>
<li>Guest and Panelist at the Jaipur Literary Festival, Jaipur, India. 2016</li>
<li>Writer in Residence, University of Michigan, February – March, 2013</li>
<li>Honorable Mention Award for feature film Ingirunthu (Here and Now) by Global Film Initiative, USA, 2011</li>
<li>Premchand Memorial Fellowship awarded by Sahithya Akademi (The Board of Arts and Letters) of India for a writer from the SAARC region for 2011-2012</li>
<li>Fellowship at Solomon Asch Centre, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2005. Presented paper and performed ‘In the Shadow of the Gun’ in collaboration with the Centre and InterArt Theatre group</li>
<li>SSRC Research Fellow for the year 2003-2004 on the theme of Movement and Citizenship; an interactive study and narrative of displacement from the North of Sri Lanka</li>
<li>Writer in Residence at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi from Feb. 24th to April 29th, 2002</li>
<li>Gratiaen Trust Award (co-winner) for best literary work in English for the year 2001. Awards given for plays, ‘In the Shadow of the Gun,’ and ‘The Wicked Witch’</li>
<li>Harriet B. Rigas Award for Outstanding Woman in Graduate Studies at the Doctoral Level awarded by the Association for Faculty Women of Washington State University, USA in 1999</li>
<li>Fulbright Junior Scholarship awarded by IIE, USA, to pursue higher studies in the United States, from August 1993-May 1995</li>
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<h2>Books and Monographs</h2>
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<li>An Incomplete Sentence: the cinema of Dharmasena Pathiraja. Edited with Robert Cruz and Ashley Ratnavibhushana. Colombo: Netpac, 2009</li>
<li>like myth and mother: a political autobiography in poetry and prose. Colombo, sirahununi, 2008. (ShortListed for the Gratiaen Trust Award)</li>
<li>Thin Veils: In the Shadow of the Gun &amp; Wicked Witch performing act/ivism. ICES, 2003</li>
<li>Militants, Militarism and the crisis of (Tamil) nationalism. Monograph. Marga, 2003</li>
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