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Jayita Sarkar is a professor specializing in Global History and Inequalities at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences in Scotland, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on histories and politics related to nuclear infrastructures, including weapons, energy, and mining, as well as territorial violence involving partitions and statelessness. Sarkar is the author of 'Ploughshares Swords: India’s Nuclear Program and the Global Cold War' published by Cornell University Press in 2022, which was awarded the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies and received an honorable mention for the 2023 Global Development Studies Best Book Award from the International Studies Association. Currently, she is completing another book under contract with Princeton University Press titled 'Atomic Capitalism: Global History,' examining the hundred-year history of nuclear sites and the energy and weapons-testing focused on these themes. Prior to her current position, she was a tenure-track assistant professor at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies and has held various research policy fellowships at institutions such as Harvard and MIT. Sarkar's teaching interests include courses on nuclear politics and global South Asia, and she is currently supervising PhD students focusing on documentary regimes of citizenship and gastronomical histories related to British colonialism.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow
Teaching and researching Global History and Inequalities.
Boston University • Boston
Research and teaching in Global History and international relations.