Jayita Sarkar is Professor of Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences in Scotland, United Kingdom. She is the author of the award-winning book, Ploughshares and Swords. India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022), and a founding series co-editor for InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century, that is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century. Her research and teaching areas are global and transnational histories of capitalism, infrastructures, and decolonisation.

Jay is currently completing her book, Atomic Capitalism. A Global History (under contract with Princeton University Press, America in the World series). It is a 100-year history of nuclear sites, from mining to energy to weapons-testing, retold through histories of capitalism, empire, and decolonisation. In order to make progress on Atomic Capitalism, she has held research fellowships at Harvard University's Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, and at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH), and Centre d'Histoire of Sciences Po Paris.

Before joining Glasgow as an Associate Professor in 2022, she was Assistant Professor at Boston University (2017-22). She has held prestigious research fellowships at places such as Harvard University, Yale University, MIT, and Dartmouth College. She is on policy secondment as a British Academy Innovation Fellow at the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC from July 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025.