| Amarnath Amarasingam | |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Field: | Extremism |
| Alma Mater: | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Thesis Title: | Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada |
| Thesis Url: | https://search.proquest.com/docview/1414751174 |
| Thesis Year: | 2013 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Lorne L. Dawson |
| Known For: | Diaspora, media studies, radicalization and deradicalization, religion, social movements, societal response, Sri Lanka, Tamils |
| Website: | https://cchs.gwu.edu/amarnath-amarasingam |
Amarnath Amarasingam is a Canadian extremism researcher.
Amarasingam studied religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University from 2007 to 2011. Since September 2011 he teaches as a lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, since January 2012 additionally at the University of Waterloo. 2013 he was awarded a PhD with a thesis on social movement activism, his doctoral advisor was Lorne L. Dawson. From May 2014 to May 2016, he conducted research with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. He is a senior research fellow at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a fellow in the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security extremism program and since January 2017 directs a study on Western Foreign Fighters at the University of Waterloo.
Amarasingam has written for The New York Times,[1] Politico,[2] The Atlantic,[3] Vice News,[4] The Daily Beast,[5] Foreign Affairs,[6] The Huffington Post,[7] Al Jazeera[8] and War on the Rocks.[9] 2016 he participated in the TV-documentation ISIS: Rise of Terror.