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Sunil S. Amrith (born 1978 or 1979) 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.

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  • Sunil S. Amrith (born 1978 or 1979) 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. (en)
  • Сунил Амрит (Sunil S. Amrith; род. 4 сентября 1979 г., Кения) — историк. Доктор философии, профессор Йеля, прежде в 2015-20 гг. профессор Гарварда, специалист по людским миграциям и экологии в регионе Южной и Юго-Восточной Азии. Макартуровский стипендиат (2017), лауреат (2016) и премии Хейнекена (2022). Член редколлегий American Historical Review и Modern Asian Studies, а также History Workshop Journal (являлся его соредактором) и Past and Present (бывший). Один из редакторов книжной серии Histories of Economic Life (Princeton University Press). (ru)
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  • Sunil S. Amrith (born 1978 or 1979) 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. Amrith was born in Kenya to parents from Tamil Nadu, and grew up 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. He also co-directed the between Harvard and the University of Cambridge, and was interim director of Harvard's . In 2020, Yale University announced that they had appointed Amrith as a professor of history. 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. He became a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. 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, was shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize. In 2022 he won the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History. (en)
  • Сунил Амрит (Sunil S. Amrith; род. 4 сентября 1979 г., Кения) — историк. Доктор философии, профессор Йеля, прежде в 2015-20 гг. профессор Гарварда, специалист по людским миграциям и экологии в регионе Южной и Юго-Восточной Азии. Макартуровский стипендиат (2017), лауреат (2016) и премии Хейнекена (2022). Вырос в Сингапуре; окончил Кембридж, где получил и степень доктора философии. Вспоминал, что на его мировоззрение как историка повлияли рассказы Майкла Ондатже и Амитава Гоша. Первую книгу, монографию, выпустил на основе диссертации. Вторая книга стала учебником по азиатской миграции.С 2006 по 2015 год преподавал в Биркбек-колледже Лондонского университета. В 2015-20 гг. профессор Гарварда, с 2018 года заведующий южно-азиатскими штудиями; затем профессор Йеля (Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor истории). Член редколлегий American Historical Review и Modern Asian Studies, а также History Workshop Journal (являлся его соредактором) и Past and Present (бывший). Один из редакторов книжной серии Histories of Economic Life (Princeton University Press). Публиковался в журналах American Historical Review, Past and Present, The Lancet, Economic, Political Weekly. Последняя книга — Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia’s History (Basic Books and Penguin UK, 2018), вошла в шорт-лист (2019), рецензировалась в Nature, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books. Предыдущая книга, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard University Press, 2013), удостоилась John F. Richards Prize (2014). Также автор Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2011) и Decolonizing International Health: South and Southeast Asia, 1930—1965 (Palgrave, 2006). «История воды, — полагает Сунил Амрит, — показывает, что природа никогда по-настоящему не была покорена». Высоко оценивал книги Виктора Либермана Strange Parallels. В настоящее время работает над The Ruins of Freedom, запланированной к публикации W.W. Norton and Allen Lane — сразу на нескольких языках. Ценитель джаза. Есть двое детей. (ru)
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