Sunil Amrith

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According to Wikipedia, Sunil S. Amrith 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 Joint Center for History and Economics between Harvard and the University of Cambridge, and was interim director of Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center. In 2020, Yale University announced that they had appointed Amrith as a professor of history.

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Sunil Amrith's Published Works

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Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (2013) (130)
Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65 (2006) (89)
New Histories of the United Nations (2008) (84)
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (2011) (81)
Decolonizing international health (2006) (53)
Sites of Asian Interaction: An introduction* (2012) (41)
Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal (2009) (39)
LHC constraints on a B − L gauge model using Contur (2018) (36)
Food and Welfare in India, c. 1900–1950 (2008) (34)
Political culture of health in India: a historical perspective (2007) (28)
Indians Overseas? Governing Tamil Migration to Malaya 1870–1941 (2010) (25)
In search of a 'magic bullet' for tuberculosis: South India and beyond, 1955-1965 (2004) (24)
Risk and the South Asian monsoon (2018) (18)
Feeding the World: Connecting Europe and Asia, 1930–1945 (2013) (17)
Asian internationalism: Bandung’s echo in a colonial metropolis (2005) (15)
Internationalising Health in the Twentieth Century (2016) (14)
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History (2018) (14)
Sites of Asian interaction : ideas, networks and mobility (2014) (10)
Reconstructing the 'Plural Society': Asian migration between empire and nation, 1940-1948 (2011) (10)
Mobile City and the Coromandel Coast: Tamil Journeys to Singapore, 1920–1960 (2010) (9)
Currents of Global Migration (2014) (9)
Migration and health in southeast Asian history (2014) (9)
Health in India since independence (2009) (9)
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century (2014) (7)
Problems to solve. (1995) (6)
South Indian Migration, c. 1800–1950 (2014) (5)
THE BAY OF BENGAL AND THE MALAY WORLD (2013) (4)
Colonial and postcolonial migrations (2017) (2)
Eugenics in Postcolonial Southeast Asia (2010) (2)
Migration, Health and Inequality in Asia (2016) (2)
Struggles for Citizenship around the Bay of Bengal (2018) (2)
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia: The Making of Asian Diasporas, 1850–1930 (2011) (1)
Building a New Utopia (2006) (1)
Depression and the Internationalization of Public Health (2006) (1)
Editorial (2021) (1)
The Anthropocene and the Triumph of the Imagination: An Environmental Perspective on C. A. Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 (2019) (1)
The Life and Possible Death of the Great Asian Monsoon (2020) (1)
Empires, diasporas and cultural circulation (2016) (1)
Migration, Development, and the Asian City, 1950–1970 (2011) (0)
Introduction (2009) (0)
Books Received (2014) (0)
The health of populations: general theories and particular realities. Stephen J. Kunitz. (2008) (0)
The Limits of Disease Control (2006) (0)
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia (2014) (0)
REVIEWS Gazing at the Stars (2008) (0)
LHC constraints on a B − L gauge model using Contur (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2014) (0)
Medicine and the monsoon (2021) (0)
Islam’s Eastern Frontiers (2020) (0)
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia: Glossary (2011) (0)
Surgical relations of the levator palpebrae superioris. (1990) (0)
The Political Culture of International Health (2006) (0)
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia: Asian Migrants in the Age of Globalization, 1970–2010 (2011) (0)
Gazing at the Stars (2008) (0)
Health and sovereignty in the new Asia: visions of development (2009) (0)
COVID Roundtable (2021) (0)
Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Southeast Asia (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
The Techno-politics of Public Health (2006) (0)
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia: War, Revolution, and Refugees, 1930–1950 (2011) (0)
Spatial and temporal impacts on socio-economic conditions in the Yangon slums (2023) (0)
Covid Roundtable: Pandemic Biopolitics, Ruptures, and Risks (2021) (0)
War and the Rise of Disease Control (2006) (0)
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia: Introduction (2011) (0)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue, editors. Asia Inside Out: Changing Times.Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue, editors. Asia Inside Out: Connected Places. (2016) (0)
South Asia’s Coastal Frontiers (2018) (0)
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia: Asia's Great Migrations, 1850–1930 (2011) (0)

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Birkbeck, University of London