Jayita Sarkar | |
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Born | 1986 |
Citizenship | American |
Occupation | Academic |
Awards | 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize |
Academic background | |
Education | Geneva Graduate Institute Paris-Sorbonne University Jadavpur University |
Thesis | (2014) |
Doctoral advisor | Jussi Hanhimäki [2] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | 20th century,global history,South Asia |
Institutions | Boston University,University of Glasgow |
Website | https://www.jayitasarkar.com/ |
Jayita Sarkar (born in 1986) is an Indian-American historian and a professor at the University of Glasgow who studies global history as well as South Asia. [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 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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