Nitish Gogoi, Ph.D.

About

I am trained in the discipline of Sociology and have experience working in the fields of sociology of health and medicine; public health and healthcare policies in India, specifically from the margin; gender and critical masculinities studies; and qualitative research methods in policy-oriented research. Currently I am working as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (An Autonomous Research Institute Under ICSSR and the Govt. of Assam), Guwahati, India. Previously I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Shreebharati College, affiliated with Dibrugarh University in Assam, India, for almost two years and served Two years as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) on an ICMR-funded project at Tezpur University, Assam, India.

Employment

• Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• Tezpur University Junior Research Fellow, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
  2019 - 2021

Education

• Rajiv Gandhi University M.Phil. in Sociology
  2017 - 2019
• Dibrugarh University M.A. in Sociology
  2014 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (18)

• Death is the Only Option for Us! Unveiling Health and Healthcare Crises Among Slum Dwellers in Guwahati Metropolitan City, India
  International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services 2026 DOI: 10.1177/27551938261451987
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• In search of decolonial spaces! A former Bodo woman rebel’s ‘intimate testimonies’ of death, desires, and romance in times of ethnonationalist armed struggle in Assam, India
  Asian Ethnicity 2026 DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2025.2468655
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• In the shadows of clinics! intimate encounters with ethics, emotions, and healthcare crises in slums of Guwahati Metropolitan City, India
  Ethics, Medicine and Public Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2026.101302
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• We boys were always on the run! Navigating the childhood memoirs of violence, terror, and trauma among men rebels of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam, India
  International Review of Sociology 2026 DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2026.2710612
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• ‘We suffer, they don’t bother’: Narratives of primary healthcare vulnerabilities during floods in Assam, India.
  Social Change and Development (UGC Care-Listed Journal). 2024
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• Educational Attainment and Socially Marginalised Women’s Access to Antenatal Care in India
  Economic and Political Weekly 2024
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• Educational Attainment and Socially Marginalised Women’s Access to Antenatal Care in India
  Economic and Political Weekly 2024
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• Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge, Taylor & Francis)
  Asian Ethnicity, Routledge 2023
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• We Are Just Mazdoors! A Decolonial Ethnographic Account of Health Inequalities, and Inequities Among Tea Garden Laborers in Assam, India
  NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy (SAGE) 2023 DOI: 10.1177/10482911231152445
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• Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition (Routledge, Taylor & Francis)
  2023
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