Amarnath Amarasingam is a Canadian extremism researcher.

Amarasingam studied religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University from 2007 to 2011. Since September 2011 he teaches as a lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, since January 2012 additionally at the University of Waterloo. 2013 he was awarded a PhD with a thesis on social movement activism, his doctoral advisor was Lorne L. Dawson. From May 2014 to May 2016, he conducted research with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University. He is a senior research fellow at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a fellow in the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security extremism program and since January 2017 directs a study on Western Foreign Fighters at the University of Waterloo.

Amarasingam has written for The New York Times, ^[1] Politico, ^[2] The Atlantic, ^[3] Vice News, ^[4] The Daily Beast, ^[5] Foreign Affairs, ^[6] The Huffington Post, ^[7] Al Jazeera ^[8] and War on the Rocks. ^[9] 2016 he participated in the TV-documentation ISIS: Rise of Terror.^{[ citation needed]}

• Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada. ( Thesis) University of Georgia Press 2015 ISBN  978-0-820-34812-4
• Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War. C. Hurst & Co. 2017 ISBN  978-1-849-04573-5
• The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News. McFarland & Company 2011 ISBN  978-0-786-45886-8
• Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal. Brill Publishers 2010 ISBN  978-90-04-18557-9; Haymarket Books 2012 ISBN  978-1-608-46203-2

• Profile of Amarnath Amarasingam at Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS)
• Amarnath Amarasingam at IMDb