Jayita Sarkar

Jayita Sarkar
Born
Calcutta, India[1]
CitizenshipAmerican
OccupationAcademic
Awards2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize
Academic background
EducationGeneva Graduate Institute
Paris-Sorbonne University
Thesis (2014)
Jussi Hanhimäki[2]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
19th and 20th century, global history, history of capitalism
InstitutionsBoston University, University of Glasgow
Websitehttps://www.jayitasarkar.com/

Jayita Sarkar is an Indian-American historian based in Scotland and Professor at the University of Glasgow who specialises in global histories of nuclear infrastructures (weapons, energy, and mining) and territorial violence (partitions and statelessness).[3] She serves as co-editor for the book series, InterConnections, at the University of North Carolina Press.

Background and personal life

She received a Ph.D. in international history from the Geneva Graduate Institute and an MPhil in sociology at the Paris-Sorbonne University.[4] She speaks fluent French.

Work

Sarkar was an assistant professor at Boston University before joining as associate professor the University of Glasgow.[5] She has held research fellowships at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Yale University, and University of Edinburgh.[6][7][8] Her research has been funded by the Stanton Foundation, British Academy, and Swiss National Science Foundation.[9][10][11] She has been a visiting professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences Po in Paris.

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.[12][13][14] The book was awarded the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies for first books on South Asia.[15] It also won an honorable mention from the global development section of the International Studies Association.[16] It has been called "required reading for historians of several different fields – foreign relations, science and technology, and decolonization."[17]

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."[18]

Sarkar was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[19] She has contributed op-eds to TIME, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Lawfare.[20][21][22][23][24]

References

  1. ↑ "Sarkar Gives Talk at Brown on Ploughshares and Swords". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "Jayita Sarkar wins major book Prize | IHEID". www.graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "DR JAY SARKAR". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  4. ↑ "Jayita Sarkar | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  5. ↑ "Sarkar Awarded 2018 McElvany Grand Prize for Article | The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  6. ↑ "Dr Jayita Sarkar | IASH". www.iash.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  7. ↑ "Sarkar Awarded 2018 McElvany Grand Prize for Article | The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  8. ↑ "Sarkar Speaks at Dartmouth on Capitalism and Nonproliferation | The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  9. ↑ "The British Academy announces first recipients of the Global Innovation Fellowships in partnership with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace". The British Academy. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "Partition Machine: The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne 100 Years Later". The British Academy. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  11. ↑ "Jayita Sarkar". www.fmsh.fr. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  12. ↑ "Uncovering global story of India's nuclear programme". Hindustan Times. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  13. ↑ "Piecing Together the History of India's Nuclear Journey". The Wire. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  14. ↑ "Jayita Sarkar | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs". www.belfercenter.org. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  15. ↑ Now, Asia (15 February 2024). "AAS 2024 Prizes". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  16. ↑ "GDS BOOK AWARD". GDS. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  17. ↑ "Review—Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War". Toynbee Prize Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  18. ↑ "Winners of the 2018 McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge". James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  19. ↑ "Society elects 239 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members | RHS". royalhistsoc.org. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  20. ↑ Sarkar, Jayita. "It's time to take domestic nuclear terrorism seriously". The Washington Post.
  21. ↑ "Instead of sanctions or a military strike, the United States should embrace a third option for dealing with North Korea". The Washington Post.
  22. ↑ Sarkar, Jayita (22 April 2024). "New Delhi's New Foreign Policy?". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  23. ↑ "Jayita Sarkar | Lawfare". Default. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  24. ↑ "Made by History". TIME. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
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