About
Sunil Amrith, the Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies and Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, holds a secondary appointment at the Yale School of the Environment. His research explores intersections between migration and ecological processes in South/Southeast Asia, expanding to global environmental history.
- 2024 Vice Provost for International Affairs at Yale
- 2015–2020: Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University
- 2006–2015: Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London
His scholarly contributions include multiple books reviewed in Nature and The Economist, with awards like the MacArthur Fellowship and Toynbee Prize. Current projects examine environmentalism in India/Indonesia and rice cultivation's global health implications.
Scientific Awards
- 2025 Toynbee Prize
- 2024 Fukuoka Academic Prize
- 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize
- 2022 Falling Walls 'scientific breakthrough' award
- 2017 MacArthur Fellowship
- 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities
- 2024 British Academy International Fellow
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