| Jayita Sarkar | |
| Birth Date: | 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Calcutta, India[1] |
| Citizenship: | American |
| Workplaces: | Boston University, University of Glasgow |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Jussi Hanhimäki[2] |
| Awards: | 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize |
| Education: | Geneva Graduate Institute Paris-Sorbonne University Jadavpur University |
| Discipline: | History |
| Occupation: | Academic |
| Sub Discipline: | 20th century, global history, South Asia |
| Thesis Year: | 2014 |
| Website: | https://www.jayitasarkar.com/ |
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]
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.
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]