Sarkar Appointed Non-Resident Fellow at Stimson Center
Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor, at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed non-resident fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC. She will be affiliated with the Stimson Center’s South Asia Program. The Stimson Center is one of the top non-partisan think tanks in the United States dedicated to the study of national and international security issues.
Sarkar was a visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in 2014, and has worked with Stimson’s South Asia Program on multiple projects, including the online educational course, ‘Nuclear South Asia.
Jayita Sarkar, an historian by training, is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. Her expertise is in the history of U.S. foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, the global Cold War, South Asia and Western Europe. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, and elsewhere. Dr. Sarkar has held fellowships at MIT, Harvard, Columbia and Yale universities, and obtained a doctorate in International History from the Graduate Institute Geneva in Switzerland.