Sunil S. Amrith is a historian at Yale University. His research interests include transnational migration in South and Southeast Asia. Born in Kenya to parents from Tamil Nadu, and raised in Singapore, his work examines history of migration, environmental history, and international public health. Amrith received a MacArthur 'genius' fellowship in 2017. His most recent book, The Burning Earth, twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs.