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]
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| Born | 4 September 1979 |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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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][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
edit- Amrith, Sunil S. (2006). Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403985934; xiii+261 pages
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[10] - Amrith, Sunil S. (2011). Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521727020; xviii+216 pages
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[11] - Amrith, Sunil S. (2013). Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674287242.[12][13]
- Harper, Tim N.; Amrith, Sunil S., eds. (2014). Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139979474. ISBN 9781139979474.
- Amrith, Sunil S. (2018). Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465097739.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Amrith, Sunil S., 1979-". Library of Congress. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Sunil Amrith". MacArthur Foundation. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Sunil Amrith". Yale University Department of History. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ Lenfield, Spencer Lee (September–October 2017). "Historian Sunil Amrita, Mehta professor of South Asian studies". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ^ "Sunil Amrith named the Dhawan Professor of History". YaleNews. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2016 - Prof. Sunil Amrith". Infosys Foundation. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ Byravan, Sujatha (24 June 2020). "Transforming education". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Revealed: the 8 history books shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize". History Extra. 20 September 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Brimnes, Niels (January 2008). "Book Review: Decolonizing international health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930–65 by Sunil S. Amrith". Med Hist. 52 (1): 133–134. PMC 2175053.
- ^ Jones, Gavin; Hugo, Graeme; Zachariah, Benjamin (1 October 2013). "Sunil S. Amrith: Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia". Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania. 169 (4): 495–513 – via Gale Academic OneFile.
- ^ Jha, Murari (2015). "Review of Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The furies of nature and the fortunes of migrants". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 46 (2): 310–312. doi:10.1017/S0022463415000107. ISSN 0022-4634. JSTOR 43863157.
- ^ Taylor, Robert H. (2 September 2014). "Sunil S. Amrith. Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants". Asian Affairs. 45 (3): 535–537. doi:10.1080/03068374.2014.954230.
- ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (4 January 2019). "'Unruly Waters' and 'Ganges' Review: In India, Water Is Politics". The Wall Street Journal.