Jayita Sarkar

Jayita Sarkar is a Professor of Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences. Her research focuses on global and transnational histories of capitalism, nuclear technologies, and decolonization. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute Geneva and a Master’s from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne.

Her major works include the award-winning Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell, 2022) and the upcoming book Atomic Capitalism: A Global History (Princeton, 2024). She has held fellowships at Harvard, MIT, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Research Highlights:

• Explores nuclear diplomacy’s intersection with capitalism and decolonization
• Analyzes Cold War-era nuclear policies in South Asia and Europe
• Examines Rohingya crisis roots in WWII and partition legacies

Awards & Recognition:

• 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize (Association for Asian Studies)
• Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society
• Recipient of multiple international grants totaling over £200k

Teaching:

• Graduate courses: Nuclear Technologies in History, Global South Asia
• Undergraduate modules on global inequalities and decolonization

Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary policy, addressing nuclear security, migration, and global economic systems.