Sunil Amrith Explained

Sunil Amrith
Birth Date:4 September 1979
Birth Place:Kenya
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge

Sunil S. Amrith (born 4 September 1979)[1] is a historian who is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. His research interests include transnational migration in South and Southeast Asia.[2]

Amrith was born in Kenya to parents from Tamil Nadu and he was raised in Singapore. He received his postsecondary education and later his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, and then taught at Birkbeck, University of London until 2015, when he became a professor of South Asian history at Harvard University.[3] He also co-directed the Joint Center for History and Economics between Harvard and the University of Cambridge, and was interim director of Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center. In 2020, Yale University announced that they had appointed Amrith as a professor of history.[4]

Amrith was awarded the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities for contributions to the fields of the history of migration, environmental history, the history of international public health, and the history of contemporary Asia.[5] He became a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.[6] Amrith has also authored several non-fiction books. Unruly Waters, which studies the influence of water on the political and economic development of the Indian subcontinent,[7] was shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize.[8] In 2022 he won the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History.[9]

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  1. Web site: Amrith, Sunil S., 1979- . . 13 December 2023 . 8 April 2013.
  2. Web site: Sunil Amrith . Yale University Department of History . 13 September 2020.
  3. Lenfield . Spencer Lee . Historian Sunil Amrita, Mehta professor of South Asian studies . 17 April 2020 . . September–October 2017.
  4. Web site: Sunil Amrith named the Dhawan Professor of History . 29 June 2020 . . 20 April 2020.
  5. Web site: Infosys Prize - Laureates 2016 - Prof. Sunil Amrith . . 15 April 2020.
  6. Web site: Sunil Amrith . . 11 October 2017 . 15 April 2020.
  7. News: Byravan . Sujatha . Transforming education . 29 June 2020 . . 24 June 2020 . en-IN.
  8. Revealed: the 8 history books shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize . . 20 September 2019.
  9. Web site: Sunil Amrith receives Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History 2022 . . 3 June 2022 . 30 October 2022.
  10. Jones . Gavin . Hugo . Graeme . Graeme Hugo . Zachariah . Benjamin . Sunil S. Amrith: Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia . . 1 October 2013 . 169 . 4 . 495–513 . Gale Academic OneFile.
  11. Jha . Murari . Review of Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The furies of nature and the fortunes of migrants . . 2015 . 46 . 2 . 310–312 . 43863157 . 0022-4634.
  12. Taylor . Robert H. . Sunil S. Amrith. Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants . . 2 September 2014 . 45 . 3 . 535–537 . 10.1080/03068374.2014.954230.
  13. News: Varadarajan . Tunku . Tunku Varadarajan . ‘Unruly Waters’ and ‘Ganges’ Review: In India, Water Is Politics . . 4 January 2019.

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