Jayita Sarkar

Jayita Sarkar is a British Academy Global Innovation Fellow at the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Washington, D.C., office. She is on policy secondment during 2024-2025 from the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Political Sciences in the United Kingdom, where she is a professor of global history of inequalities. She was formerly an assistant professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and is the author of the award-winning book “Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War” (Cornell University Press, 2022).