Sunil Amrith

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Sunil Amrith
Born (1979-09-04) 4 September 1979 (age 44)
MacArthur Fellowship
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
Institutions

Sunil S. Amrith (born 4 September 1979)[1][2] 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.[3]

Amrith was born in

South Asian history at Harvard University.[3][4] 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.[3] In 2020, Yale University announced that they had appointed Amrith as a professor of history.[5]

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.[6] He became a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.[2] 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]

Works

  • Amrith, Sunil S. (2006). Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65.
    ISBN 9781403985934
    .
  • Amrith, Sunil S. (2011). Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia.
    ISBN 9780521727020.[10]
  • Amrith, Sunil S. (2013). Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
    ISBN 9780674287242.[11][12]
  • Harper, Tim N.; Amrith, Sunil S., eds. (2014). Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility.
    ISBN 9781139979474
    .
  • Amrith, Sunil S. (2018). Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History.
    ISBN 9780465097739.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Amrith, Sunil S., 1979-". Library of Congress. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Sunil Amrith". MacArthur Foundation. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Sunil Amrith". Yale University Department of History. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  4. ^ Lenfield, Spencer Lee (September–October 2017). "Historian Sunil Amrita, Mehta professor of South Asian studies". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  5. YaleNews
    . 20 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2016 - Prof. Sunil Amrith". Infosys Foundation. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  7. ^ Byravan, Sujatha (24 June 2020). "Transforming education". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  8. History Extra
    . 20 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Sunil Amrith receives Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History 2022". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  10. Gale Academic OneFile
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  11. JSTOR 43863157
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  12. doi:10.1080/03068374.2014.954230
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  13. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (4 January 2019). "'Unruly Waters' and 'Ganges' Review: In India, Water Is Politics". The Wall Street Journal.

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