Jayita Sarkar is Assistant Professor at Boston University's School of Global Studies. Her expertise is in the global history of South Asia, twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations history, history of technology, and partitions. Her research has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, International History Review and elsewhere.
Her first book manuscript, Ploughshares & Swords, examines the global history of India's nuclear program. Concurrently, she has two ongoing single-authored book-length projects: one, on the intersection of businesses, banks, and the U.S. government to export light water reactors to expand U.S. global power from the 1950s to the 1980s, and the other, on the global intellectual history of partitions as an external tool of state-making from 1900 to 1950, with particular emphasis on the Bengal-Burma frontier.
Born in Calcutta, India, she studied at Jadavpur University and the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, before obtaining a doctorate in History from the Graduate Institute Geneva in Switzerland. She has held fellowships at Yale, Harvard, MIT and Dartmouth College.
She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her spouse and two cats, Gorky and Grieg.