Dr. Sureshi M. Jayawardene

associate professor of Africana Studies

Dr. Sureshi M. Jayawardene is an associate professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Department of Black Studies and brings a wealth of experience in the areas of the Indian Ocean African diaspora, Black student mothers, and the emergent subfields of Black Geographies and Africana Digital Humanities. Since 2022, she has served as the co-director of the Digital Humanities initiative at SDSU (DH@SDSU) and led important projects to bring DH tools and knowledge to faculty in the ethnic studies units on campus and to highlight the Dh-inflected scholarship and pedagogical experiments of faculty in these units. Her scholarship can be found in the Journal of Black Studies, Souls, Journal of African American Studies, and African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. She is currently working on her book project about Ceylon Africans in Sri Lanka.