Sunil Amrith

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From 2006 to 2015, Amrith taught modern Asian history at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2015, he moved to the United States and became a professor of South Asian history at Harvard University. 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 (2019–2020).

In 2020, Yale University announced Amrith's appointment as the Dhawan Professor of History. In March 2025, he became the Henry Luce Director of Yale's Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

Amrith resides with his wife, Ruth Coffey, and their two children in Hamden, Connecticut.

• 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
• 2017 MacArthur Fellowship
• 2019: shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize for his book Unruly Waters, which studies the influence of water on the political and economic development of the Indian subcontinent
• 2022 Heineken Prizes for History to honour "his search for the historical origins of the great inequality that exists between and within countries"
• 2022 Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year award for "Breaking the Wall to Reimagining Environmental Justice in a Historical Perspective"
• 2024 British Academy Fellowship
• 2024 Fukuoka Prize for being an "outstanding historian of Asia"
• 2025 Toynbee Prize for his "wide-ranging and ambitious scholarship"
• 2025: shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for his book The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
• 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for The Burning Earth

• (2025). 9781403985934, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403985934
• (2025). 9780521727020, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521727020
• (2025). 9780674287242, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674287242
• (2025). 9781139979474, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139979474
• (2025). 9780465097739, Basic Books. ISBN 9780465097739

• Faculty profile at Yale University