Sarkar Gives Keynote at Natick High School on Peace and Security
Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a keynote at Natick High School in Massachusetts on July 20, 2018, entitled, “Peace, Security and Nuclear Issues.”
The keynote was delivered at the invitation of Primary Source, a Massachusetts-based educational nonprofit that provides professional development and curriculum enhancement for K-12 educators.
Sarkar’s keynote was part of the annual summer institute organized by Primary Source on July 16-20 on this year’s theme, “Teaching for Global Understanding in the 21st Century”. The annual summer institute is attended by a select group of K-12 teachers from public and private schools from across the United States.
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.