Niro Kandasamy 

(நிரோஷினி கந்தசாமி



BSocSci (Honours Class 1) UNSW. PhD University of Melbourne

I am a historian in the School of Humanities at the University of Sydney. 

I research twentieth and twenty-first century refugee resettlement, foreign aid, and settler colonialism, and teach modern histories of international relations, displacement, and social movements. A frequent contributor to public discussion, my opinions have been featured in Australian and international media, such as the BBC, ABC, and SBS. 

I have held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, York University, and am a current US Fulbright scholar

Latest Awards & Honours

2024 US Fulbright Scholarship

2024 Champions of Change Award (with James Findlay and Thomas Café) for our History Extension Mentoring Program

2024 Shortlisted for the Allan Martin Award by the Australian Historical Association 

2023 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence (with History department) for Student Experience

2022 ABC Top 5