March 25, 2025
The Toynbee Prize Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Toynbee Prize is Sunil Amrith. 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 has been awarded the Toynbee Prize for his exceptional work on the movement of peoples as shaped by environmental forces, work that has brought the regions of South/Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to the center of global historical scholarship. He has published in the fields of environmental history, the history of migration, and the history of public health.