Sarkar, Capella Zielinski Awarded Stanton Foundation Grant

Jayita Sarkar, who will be joining as faculty the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University as an Assistant Professor of International Relations beginning with the Fall 2017 semester, and Rosella Capella Zielinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University, have been awarded a grant from the Stanton Foundation for the development of a new course on nuclear security at Boston University.

The course will be developed using the $50,000 grant for the 2017-2018 academic year, and will focus on nuclear governance including nuclear proliferation, nonproliferation, nuclear force posture, nuclear terrorism, and, as it relates to nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The course will be a joint offering of the Pardee School and Department of Political Science.

Jayita Sarkar is currently a research fellow with the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her expertise is in the history of U.S. foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, export controls, the global Cold War and South Asia. She was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Sarkar will be joining the Pardee School faculty as an Assistant Professor of International Relations from the Fall 2017 Semester.

Rosella Capella Zielinski is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and national security. She is interested in explaining how domestic economic pressures shape national security decisions and how the financing of national security regimes redistributes wealth within a domestic economy.