Caitlin Meyer
Caitlin Meyer (’22) is a junior at Boston University majoring in International Relations with a minor in Journalism. She is a former research intern of the Nuclear Sites Project at the Global Decolonization Initiative, and a UROP awardee. Website: https://www.caitmariemeyer.com
Articles by Caitlin Meyer
Jayita Sarkar
Jayita Sarkar is assistant professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, and the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. The Initiative houses the Nuclear Sites Project on the interconnectedness of systemic disenfranchisement in nuclear infrastructures across the world. Website: www.jayitasarkar.com
Articles by Jayita Sarkar
Pardee School Students Awarded CAS Research Internships
Two students at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University – Cristina Morrison (Pardee BA ’22) and Ariana Thorpe (Pardee BA ’22) – were recently awarded 2020-21 Social Science Research Internships in Social Justice and Sustainability from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Morrison and Thorpe will work on the project entitled, “Race and Radioactivity in New Mexico and Namibia,” under the supervision of Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School. The research project will examine how infrastructures of nuclear technologies have systematically disenfranchised communities of color in New Mexico, where the first atomic weapon was tested in July 1945, and in uranium-rich Namibia, one of the last countries to become decolonized in Africa.