NEW YORK,NY-Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family professor of South Asian studies and professor of history at Harvard, has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship better known as the “genius grant”, a no-strings-attached award of $625,000 paid out over five years. The fellowship is awarded annually to 24 talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality. The 38-year-old Amrith of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a historian...
exploring migration in South and Southeast Asia and its role in shaping present-day social and cultural dynamics. His focus on migration, rather than political forces such as colonial empires and the formation of modern nations, demonstrates that South Asia, primarily India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore are tied by centuries of movement of people and goods around and across the Bay of Bengal.
He was chosen for “illustrating the role of centuries of transnational migration in the present-day social and cultural dynamics of South and Southeast Asia,” according to the MacArthur Foundation.
Amrith grew up in Singapore and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge. He was a research fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge during 2004 to 2006 and before coming to Harvard in 2015, he spent nine years teaching modern Asian history at Birkbeck College, University of London.
He was chosen for “illustrating the role of centuries of transnational migration in the present-day social and cultural dynamics of South and Southeast Asia,” according to the MacArthur Foundation.
Amrith grew up in Singapore and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge. He was a research fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge during 2004 to 2006 and before coming to Harvard in 2015, he spent nine years teaching modern Asian history at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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