Professor Jay Sarkar

  • Professor of Global History of Inequalities (Political & International Studies)

Biography

Jayita Sarkar is Professor of Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences in Scotland, United Kingdom. Her research and teaching areas are histories and politics of nuclear infrastructures (weapons, energy, and mining) and territorial violence (partitions and statelessness).

Her first book, Ploughshares and Swords. India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022), was awarded the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies and 2023 Honorable Mention for Global Development Studies Book Award from the International Studies Association. The book is open access here.

Jay is currently completing her next book, Atomic Capitalism. A Global History (under contract with Princeton University Press, America in the World series). It is a 100-year history of nuclear sites, from mining to energy to weapons-testing. In spring 2026, she will be a visiting professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris to teach a course on nuclear politics and continue to work on Atomic Capitalism.

Before joining Glasgow as senior lecturer (tenured associate professor) in 2022, she was a tenure-track assistant professor at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies (2017-22). She has held research and policy fellowships at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Edinburgh, and Sciences Po, amongst others. Most recently, she was on policy secondment as a British Academy Global Innovation Fellow in 2024-25 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC with the Nuclear Policy Program, during which she worked on AI and nuclear energy renaissance in the US context.

She is a book series editor for InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press) that is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century. 

Research interests

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Sarkar, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2025) What happens when big tech goes nuclear? Time,

2023

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2023) Battlefields to borderlands: Rohingyas between global war and decolonisation. In: Guyot-Réchard, Berenice and Leake, Elisabeth (eds.) South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent. Series: Global Connections: Routes and Roots (5). Leiden University Press/University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9789087284091

2022

Sarkar, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) New Books Network Podcast: Jayita Sarkar Ploughshares and Swords. [Audio]

Sarkar, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) 1869, Cornell University Press Podcast, Ep. 118 with Jayita Sarkar, author of Ploughshares and Swords. [Audio]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, New York. ISBN 9781501764400 (doi: 10.1353/book.95092)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) Nuclear Reaganomics: Corporate lobbying after Three Mile Island, 1979-1985. In: Dietrich, Christopher R. W. (ed.) Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pp. 206-220. ISBN 9780812253955 (hardback); 9780812298567 (ebook); 9780812225310 (paperback) (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1sjwpfz.14)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Mehta, Shibani (2022) Understanding the Rohingya Crisis with Jayita Sarkar. [Audio]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain. H-Diplo, XXIII(25), [Book Review]

2021

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) H-Diplo Review Essay 399 on "Fateful Triangle". H-Diplo, p. 399. [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) From the dependable to the demanding partner: the renegotiation of French nuclear cooperation with India, 1974–80. Cold War History, 21(3), pp. 301-318. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1694908)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) Brendan Rittenhouse Green, The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Texas National Security Review, [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) The economic strategies of U.S. nonproliferation policy during the Nixon-Ford years. Journal of Global Security Studies, 6(1), ogaa009. (doi: 10.1093/jogss/ogaa009)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) How to support the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons without signing it. Lawfare,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Meyer, Caitlin (2021) Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) It’s time to take domestic nuclear terrorism seriously. Washington Post,

2019

Blarel, Nicolas and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) Substate organizations as foreign policy agents: new evidence and theory from India, Israel, and France. Foreign Policy Analysis, 15(3), pp. 413-431. (doi: 10.1093/fpa/ory009)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) Terence Roehrig, Japan, South Korea and the United States Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017). Passport, 50(1), pp. 77-79. [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) U.S. policy to curb West European nuclear exports, 1974–1978. Journal of Cold War Studies, 21(2), pp. 110-149. (doi: 10.1162/jcws_a_00877)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) How WWII shaped the crisis in Myanmar. Washington Post,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy. H-Diplo/ISSF, XI(9), [Book Review]

2018

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Ganguly, Sumit (2018) India and the NPT after 50 years. Diplomat,

Krige, John and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) US technological collaboration for nonproliferation: key evidence from the Cold War. Nonproliferation Review, 25(3-4), pp. 249-262. (doi: 10.1080/10736700.2018.1510465)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) Malcolm M. Craig. America, Britain and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1974-1980: A Dream of Nightmare Proportions. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 319 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-319-51879-4. H-Net Reviews, [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Snow, Dan (2018) Update on the Rohingya Crisis with Jayita Sarkar. [Audio]

Rabinowitz, Or and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) ‘It isn’t over until the fuel cell sings’: a reassessment of the US and French pledges of nuclear assistance in the 1970s. Journal of Strategic Studies, 41(1-2), pp. 275-300. (doi: 10.1080/01402390.2017.1328355)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) Rohingyas and the unfinished business of partition. Diplomat,

2017

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Rabinowitz, Or (2017) Instead of sanctions or a military strike, the United States should embrace a third option for dealing with North Korea. Washington Post,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe. H-Diplo/ISSF, IX(19), [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) India’s Nuclear History, Frozen in Time. [Website]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) Sino-Indian nuclear rivalry: glacially declassified. Diplomat,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) Managing nuclear risk in South Asia: an Indian response. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 73(1), pp. 59-61. (doi: 10.1080/00963402.2016.1264215)

2016

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2016) Three concrete steps toward South Asian nuclear stability. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

2015

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) The making of a non-aligned nuclear power: India's proliferation drift, 1964–8. International History Review, 37(5), pp. 933-950. (doi: 10.1080/07075332.2015.1078393)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) ‘Wean them away from French tutelage’: Franco-Indian nuclear relations and Anglo-American anxieties during the early Cold War, 1948–1952. Cold War History, 15(3), pp. 375-394. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2014.989840)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) The middle powers’ congruence: India, France, and nuclear technology. India in Transition,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) Strategic passing: why India will not be Pakistan 2.0 in U.S. Asia Policy. Foreign Policy,

Akhtar, Rabia and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) Pakistan, India, and China After The U.S. Drawdown From Afghanistan: A Visiting Fellow Report. Documentation. Stimson Center.

2014

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) A bullock cart on nuclear-powered wheels: nuclear science, indigeneity and the national development narrative in India. In: Mayer, Maximilian, Carpes, Mariana and Knoblich, Ruth (eds.) The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 2. Series: Global power shift. Springer: Berlin, pp. 21-30. ISBN 9783642550102 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-55010-2_2)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xx+451. ISBN 978-0-262-01726-1. £20.95 (hardback). British Journal for the History of Science, 47(2), pp. 388-389. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087414000351)[Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) Filling the empty chair: France and the United States from Geneva. Passport, 45(1), pp. 16-17.

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) Atomic compatriots? The trajectory of Franco-Indian nuclear cooperation, 1950-1976. Critique Internationale, 63(2), pp. 131-149. (doi: 10.3917/crii.063.0131)

2013

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2013) From The Peaceful Atom to The Peaceful Explosion. Working Paper. Woodrow Wilson Center.

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2013) Gabrielle Hecht (ed.), Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. ix+337. ISBN 978-0-262-51578-8. £20.95 (paperback). British Journal for the History of Science, 46(2), pp. 354-355. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087413000265)[Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2013) India's nuclear limbo and the fatalism of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, 1974–1983. Strategic Analysis, 37(3), pp. 322-337. (doi: 10.1080/09700161.2013.782662)

2012

Sarkar, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Patil, K. (2012) India is no longer isolated. Limes: Italian Review of Geopolitics, pp. 123-134.

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2012) Whither pax atomica? - the euromissiles crisis and the peace movement of the early 1980s. Project Report. Woodrow Wilson Center.

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2012) Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks and Power in India by Robert S. Anderson. Strategic Analysis, 36(1), pp. 166-167. (doi: 10.1080/09700161.2012.628484)[Book Review]

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Number of items: 47.

Articles

Sarkar, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2025) What happens when big tech goes nuclear? Time,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) From the dependable to the demanding partner: the renegotiation of French nuclear cooperation with India, 1974–80. Cold War History, 21(3), pp. 301-318. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1694908)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) The economic strategies of U.S. nonproliferation policy during the Nixon-Ford years. Journal of Global Security Studies, 6(1), ogaa009. (doi: 10.1093/jogss/ogaa009)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) How to support the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons without signing it. Lawfare,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Meyer, Caitlin (2021) Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) It’s time to take domestic nuclear terrorism seriously. Washington Post,

Blarel, Nicolas and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) Substate organizations as foreign policy agents: new evidence and theory from India, Israel, and France. Foreign Policy Analysis, 15(3), pp. 413-431. (doi: 10.1093/fpa/ory009)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) U.S. policy to curb West European nuclear exports, 1974–1978. Journal of Cold War Studies, 21(2), pp. 110-149. (doi: 10.1162/jcws_a_00877)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) How WWII shaped the crisis in Myanmar. Washington Post,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Ganguly, Sumit (2018) India and the NPT after 50 years. Diplomat,

Krige, John and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) US technological collaboration for nonproliferation: key evidence from the Cold War. Nonproliferation Review, 25(3-4), pp. 249-262. (doi: 10.1080/10736700.2018.1510465)

Rabinowitz, Or and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) ‘It isn’t over until the fuel cell sings’: a reassessment of the US and French pledges of nuclear assistance in the 1970s. Journal of Strategic Studies, 41(1-2), pp. 275-300. (doi: 10.1080/01402390.2017.1328355)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) Rohingyas and the unfinished business of partition. Diplomat,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Rabinowitz, Or (2017) Instead of sanctions or a military strike, the United States should embrace a third option for dealing with North Korea. Washington Post,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) Sino-Indian nuclear rivalry: glacially declassified. Diplomat,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) Managing nuclear risk in South Asia: an Indian response. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 73(1), pp. 59-61. (doi: 10.1080/00963402.2016.1264215)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2016) Three concrete steps toward South Asian nuclear stability. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) The making of a non-aligned nuclear power: India's proliferation drift, 1964–8. International History Review, 37(5), pp. 933-950. (doi: 10.1080/07075332.2015.1078393)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) ‘Wean them away from French tutelage’: Franco-Indian nuclear relations and Anglo-American anxieties during the early Cold War, 1948–1952. Cold War History, 15(3), pp. 375-394. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2014.989840)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) The middle powers’ congruence: India, France, and nuclear technology. India in Transition,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) Strategic passing: why India will not be Pakistan 2.0 in U.S. Asia Policy. Foreign Policy,

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) Filling the empty chair: France and the United States from Geneva. Passport, 45(1), pp. 16-17.

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) Atomic compatriots? The trajectory of Franco-Indian nuclear cooperation, 1950-1976. Critique Internationale, 63(2), pp. 131-149. (doi: 10.3917/crii.063.0131)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2013) India's nuclear limbo and the fatalism of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, 1974–1983. Strategic Analysis, 37(3), pp. 322-337. (doi: 10.1080/09700161.2013.782662)

Sarkar, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Patil, K. (2012) India is no longer isolated. Limes: Italian Review of Geopolitics, pp. 123-134.

Books

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, New York. ISBN 9781501764400 (doi: 10.1353/book.95092)

Book Sections

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2023) Battlefields to borderlands: Rohingyas between global war and decolonisation. In: Guyot-Réchard, Berenice and Leake, Elisabeth (eds.) South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent. Series: Global Connections: Routes and Roots (5). Leiden University Press/University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9789087284091

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) Nuclear Reaganomics: Corporate lobbying after Three Mile Island, 1979-1985. In: Dietrich, Christopher R. W. (ed.) Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pp. 206-220. ISBN 9780812253955 (hardback); 9780812298567 (ebook); 9780812225310 (paperback) (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1sjwpfz.14)

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) A bullock cart on nuclear-powered wheels: nuclear science, indigeneity and the national development narrative in India. In: Mayer, Maximilian, Carpes, Mariana and Knoblich, Ruth (eds.) The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 2. Series: Global power shift. Springer: Berlin, pp. 21-30. ISBN 9783642550102 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-55010-2_2)

Book Reviews

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain. H-Diplo, XXIII(25), [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) H-Diplo Review Essay 399 on "Fateful Triangle". H-Diplo, p. 399. [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2021) Brendan Rittenhouse Green, The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Texas National Security Review, [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) Terence Roehrig, Japan, South Korea and the United States Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017). Passport, 50(1), pp. 77-79. [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2019) Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy. H-Diplo/ISSF, XI(9), [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2018) Malcolm M. Craig. America, Britain and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1974-1980: A Dream of Nightmare Proportions. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 319 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-319-51879-4. H-Net Reviews, [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe. H-Diplo/ISSF, IX(19), [Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2014) Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xx+451. ISBN 978-0-262-01726-1. £20.95 (hardback). British Journal for the History of Science, 47(2), pp. 388-389. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087414000351)[Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2013) Gabrielle Hecht (ed.), Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. ix+337. ISBN 978-0-262-51578-8. £20.95 (paperback). British Journal for the History of Science, 46(2), pp. 354-355. (doi: 10.1017/S0007087413000265)[Book Review]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2012) Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks and Power in India by Robert S. Anderson. Strategic Analysis, 36(1), pp. 166-167. (doi: 10.1080/09700161.2012.628484)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Akhtar, Rabia and Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2015) Pakistan, India, and China After The U.S. Drawdown From Afghanistan: A Visiting Fellow Report. Documentation. Stimson Center.

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2013) From The Peaceful Atom to The Peaceful Explosion. Working Paper. Woodrow Wilson Center.

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2012) Whither pax atomica? - the euromissiles crisis and the peace movement of the early 1980s. Project Report. Woodrow Wilson Center.

Audio

Sarkar, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) New Books Network Podcast: Jayita Sarkar Ploughshares and Swords. [Audio]

Sarkar, Jay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2022) 1869, Cornell University Press Podcast, Ep. 118 with Jayita Sarkar, author of Ploughshares and Swords. [Audio]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Mehta, Shibani (2022) Understanding the Rohingya Crisis with Jayita Sarkar. [Audio]

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 and Snow, Dan (2018) Update on the Rohingya Crisis with Jayita Sarkar. [Audio]

Website

Sarkar, Jayita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-4400 (2017) India’s Nuclear History, Frozen in Time. [Website]

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Grants

Research & Knowledge Exchange

PI, British Academy Global Innovation Fellowship, 2024-25, £150,000

PI, Stanton Foundation Nuclear Security Grant at University of Glasgow, 2023-25, US$ 49,500

PI, British Academy Grant for “Partition Machine," conference and edited volume for Oxford University Press, 2023-24, £20,000

PI, University of Glasgow Chancellor’s Fund, “Decolonisation Podcast & Archive Fellows,” 2022-24, £4,000 

PI, Swiss National Science Foundation, Open Access Book Grant, 2021, PI, 14,000 CHF

External research fellowship: Harvard University, Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy, 2020, US$ 44,000

PI, Stanton Foundation Applied History Grant at Boston University, 2019, PI, US$ 34,909

External research fellowship: Dartmouth College, US Foreign Policy & International Security Fellowship, 2018, US$ 46,000

PI, Stanton Foundation Nuclear Security Grant at Boston University, 2017, US$ 50,000

External research fellowship: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Research Fellowship, 2014, 13,000 NOK

External research fellowship: Albert Gallatin Pre-doctoral Fellowship in International Affairs at Yale University, 2013, US$ 14,000

 

Archival Research 

External research fellowship: Henry Belin du Pont Research Fellowship, Hagley Museum & Library, 2023-24, for archival research, US$1,700

External research fellowship: American Institute of Bangladesh Studies Senior Research Fellowship, 2023-25, for archival, oral history, and ethnographic research in Dhaka and Chittagong, US$ 6,700

External research fellowship: Hoover Institution, Silas Palmer research grant for archival research, 2022, US$ 2,500

 

Postgraduate Study

Hans Wilsdorf Foundation Doctoral Scholarship at Graduate Institute Geneva, 2010–11, 20,000 CHF

Regional Council of Paris Region Masters Scholarship, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2009–10, 10,000 EUR

 

Supervision

I welcome students interested in the following research themes at BA, MA/MSc, and PhD levels with a qualitative and historical focus (re: methods and framing) on themes related to international and global security, particularly, nuclear politics and territorial violence. 

Current PhD students:

  • Srija Mukhopadhyay (2024-27): "Papercuts: Documentary Regimes and Citizenship, 1939-79" Supervision with Dr Gareth Mulvey (Sociology) and Dr Ben White (History).

  • Rupsa Ghosh (2023-26), "Gastronomical Histories of the British Empire in Calcutta," Supervision with Dr Souvik Naha (Economic & Social History).

  • Ghosh, Rupsha
    TITLE OF MY PROPOSAL: An Aftertaste of Colonialism: Understanding British-Bengali Culinary Relations in Postcolonial Calcutta
  • Yi, Duanyi
    How unique was China's Nuclear Strategy ( 1964-1993)

Teaching

At the University of Glasgow:

  • ESH 4087, Global South Asia: Honours-level undergraduate course, sole convenor
  • ESH 5069, Global Unequal Orders: Graduate course, sole convenor
  • SPS 5063: Politics of Nuclear Weapons & Energy: Graduate course, sole convenor
  • ESH Level 1A, 2022-26: Team-taught module; contributor.
  • ESH Level 1B, 2022-26: Team-taught module; contributor.

Prior teaching, at Boston University:

  • Global South Asia
  • History, Policy, & Statecraft [historical methods course]
  • International Nuclear Politics
  • History of International Relations since 1945 [core undergraduate course]
  • Global Decolonization Research Internships [co-curricular]

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2024: Winner, Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize for first books on South Asia (Association for Asian Studies)
  • 2023: Honourable Mention, Global Development Studies Best Book Award (International Studies Association)
  • 2018: Grand Prize Winner for Best Article of the Year (Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge)
  • 2022: Elected Fellow (Royal Historical Society)
  • 2022: Elected Fellow (Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Research fellowships

  • 06/2022 - 08/2022: University of Edinburgh, Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  • 09/2020 - 06/2021: Harvard University, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History
  • 09/2020 - 06/2021: Harvard Kennedy School, Ernest May Fellowship in History & Policy
  • 09/2018 - 06/2019: Dartmouth College, Niehaus Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 08/2016 - 06/2017: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 09/2015 - 05/2016: Harvard Kennedy School, Managing the Atom Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 08/2014 - 06/2015: Harvard Kennedy School, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellowship

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2024 - 2026: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Marty Sherwin Fellowship Selection Committee Member
  • 2021 - 2024: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, William Appleman Williams Emerging Scholar Research Grant Committee
  • 2022 - present: Arms Control Association, Board of Directors
  • 2020 - 2021: American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, Board of Trustees
  • 2018 - 2020: Society for the History of Technology, Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize Committee Member
  • 2019 - 2019: American Academy of Berlin, Grant Application Reviewer
  • 2017 - 2017: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Grant Application Reviewer
  • 2015 - 2015: Smith Richardson Foundation, Grant Application Reviewer

Editorial boards

  • 2022 - present: Global Nuclear Histories, McGill-Queen’s University Press (book series)
  • 08/2022 - 02/2024: Cold War History (journal)

Professional & learned societies

  • 2024 - 2027: Committee on Digital Resources and Archival Sharing, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
  • 2020 - 2023: Internationalization Task Force Member, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
  • 2021 - 2021: Officer-at-Large, Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST), International Studies Association
  • 2018 - 2020: Officer-at-Large, South Asia in World Politics Section (SAWP), International Studies Association
  • 2019 - 2019: Program Committee Member, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Selected international presentations

  • 24/04/2023: Washington History Conference (Woodrow Wilson Center and American Historical Association, Washington, DC, USA)
  • 11/04/2023: Conversations on South Asia (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA)
  • 28/11/2022: International History & Politics Forum, IHP/ANSO (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland)
  • 10/03/2022: Book Talk, CISAC, Nuclear Reading Group (Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA)
  • 14/02/2022: Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
  • 18/11/2021: Book Talk, Security Studies Seminar (Carnegie India, New Delhi, India)
  • 07/04/2021: Science and Global Security Seminar (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
  • 30/11/2020: Science, Technology, and Society Circle (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)