Work
Sarkar was an associate professor at the University of Glasgow and assistant professor at Boston University [6] She has also held research fellowships at Harvard University,Dartmouth College,Yale University,and University of Edinburgh. [7] [8] [9] Her research has been funded by the British Academy,Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris),and Swiss National Science Foundation. [10] [11] [12]
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. [13] [14] [15]
The book was awarded the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies for first books on South Asia. [16] It also won an honorable mention from the global development section of the International Studies Association. [17] It has been called "required reading for historians of several different fields –foreign relations,science and technology,and decolonization." [18]
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." [19]
Sarkar was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [20] She has contributed op-eds to TIME,Washington Post,Foreign Policy,and Lawfare. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
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