Swargajyoti Gohain is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University, India. She is the author of Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands, which is an exploration of the cultural politics and spatial imaginations among Himalayan Buddhist border communities in Northeast India.

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Swargajyoti Gohain is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University, India and the author of Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands.

Her work has been published in journals such as Modern Asian Studies; Territory, Politics, and Governance; Social Anthropology; European Bulletin of Himalayan Research; Contributions to Indian Sociology; Economic and Political Weekly; New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies; Sociological Bulletin; and Contemporary Buddhism, and as chapters in edited volumes.

Her research interests include indigenous identities, borders and the state, road infrastructure, cultural politics, and religion and environment in the Himalayas. Her current book project is on modern Buddhist universities in India. Her other long term interest is to study the interface of culture and ecology in the Himalayan region.