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Jayita Sarkar

Jayita Sarkar (born in 1986) is an Indian-born American historian and a Professor at the University of Glasgow who studies global history of inequalities, capitalism, and empire.^[3]

Background and personal life[edit]

She received a Ph.D. in international history from the Geneva Graduate Institute, an MA in sociology at the Paris-Sorbonne University, and a BA and MA in political science and international relations at Jadavpur University.^[4][5] She speaks fluent French, Bengali, and Hindi.

Work[edit]

Sarkar was an associate professor at the University of Glasgow and assistant professor at Boston University^[6] She has also held fellowships at the Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Yale University and University of Edinburgh.^[7][8][9]

Her first book, Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022), examines the international and transnational history of India's nuclear program.^[10][11][12]

The book was awarded the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies for first books on South Asia.^[13] It also won an honorable mention from the global development section of the International Studies Association.^[14] It has been called "required reading for historians of several different fields – foreign relations, science and technology, and decolonization."^[15]

Sarkar has also been awarded the Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Grand Prize in 2018, alongside historian John Krige for presenting "outstanding historical research that makes a direct intervention into a hot topic in scholarly quantitative literature with clear policy relevance."^[16]

Sarkar was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[17] She has contributed op-eds to The Washington Post, Foreign Policy and Lawfare.^{[18][19] [20][21]}

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