Sumathy Sivamohan

Awards and Honors

• The Best Film (Jury) prize at the World Indian Film Festival Hyderabad 2018 for the film Sons and Fathers


• Teaching Award granted by Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, March-May 2017


• Erasmus Mundus Fellowship Award to be held at Univ. of Edinburgh for one month in 2016-2017


• Award granted by GIZ and European Union for film on Music of the minorities. 2016


• Guest and Panelist at the Jaipur Literary Festival, Jaipur, India. 2016


• Writer in Residence, University of Michigan, February – March, 2013


• Honorable Mention Award for feature film Ingirunthu (Here and Now) by Global Film Initiative, USA, 2011


• 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


• 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


• 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


• Writer in Residence at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi from Feb. 24th to April 29th, 2002


• 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’


• 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


• Fulbright Junior Scholarship awarded by IIE, USA, to pursue higher studies in the United States, from August 1993-May 1995

Books and Monographs

• An Incomplete Sentence: the cinema of Dharmasena Pathiraja. Edited with Robert Cruz and Ashley Ratnavibhushana. Colombo: Netpac, 2009


• like myth and mother: a political autobiography in poetry and prose. Colombo, sirahununi, 2008. (ShortListed for the Gratiaen Trust Award)


• Thin Veils: In the Shadow of the Gun & Wicked Witch performing act/ivism. ICES, 2003


• Militants, Militarism and the crisis of (Tamil) nationalism. Monograph. Marga, 2003