Sarkar Gives Talk in Milan on Light Water Capitalism
Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently gave a talk at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology in Milan, Italy, where she also served on the Robinson Prize Committee that selects the best graduate student presentation at the meeting.
Sarkar’s talk was from her second book project, “Light Water Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Global Power,” which examines the role of light water reactor exports in U.S. nonproliferation policy from the mid-1950s until the 1980s.
Founded in 1958, the Society for the History of Technology is an international professional organization that is dedicated to the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts. Its quarterly journal, Technology & Culture is published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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 global history of South Asia, twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations history, history of technology, and partitions. Her research has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History , International History Review and elsewhere. Born in Calcutta, India, she obtained her doctorate in History from the Graduate Institute Geneva in Switzerland, and has held fellowships at Yale, Harvard, MIT and Dartmouth College.