Sunil Amrith | Port Cities, the Ocean, and the Hydrosphere

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, with a secondary appointment as Professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He is also current Chair of the South Asian Studies Council at Yale’s MacMillan Center. Amrith is the author of four books, with a fifth, The Burning Earth, to be published by W.W. Norton in September 2024. He is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and received the 2022 Heineken Prize in History.

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Professor Amrith will share a paper titled “Port Cities, the Ocean, and the Hydrosphere.”