Sunil Amrith Wins British Academy Book Prize

Former Faculty Associate Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, is the recipient of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize for his book, The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years (W. W. Norton). The British Academy Book Prize was “established in 2013 to reward and celebrate writing grounded in high-quality research—works of nonfiction that will inspire readers to deepen their understanding of people, society, and cultures across time and place.” Amrith is the thirteenth recipient of the award, and impressed the judges with his groundbreaking work of global environmental history that reveals the connections between human history and environmental change.