Sahana Ghosh

Sahana Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. A social anthropologist specializing in South Asia, her research examines mobility, borderlands, gender, and state power, with ethnographic fieldwork focused on India and Bangladesh.

Her research investigates how security regimes produce gendered inequalities at borderlands. She analyzes how state surveillance technologies intersect with agrarian transformations to reshape citizenship, labor, and kinship. Her award-winning book explores how border infrastructures reconfigure vulnerability and resistance in everyday life.

Ghosh's publications demonstrate how security policies materialize through gendered violence and devaluation of borderland livelihoods. Recent work examines biometric governance, women's integration in security forces, and transnational domestic labor circuits. Methodologically, she advances feminist approaches to state ethnography.

She is currently developing projects on climate migration and refugee neighborliness. Her scholarship contributes to critical security studies through attention to embodied experiences of militarization.

Ghosh received her PhD from Yale University and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and Brown University before joining NUS. Her research has been recognized with the APLA Book Prize (2024) and she serves on editorial boards of key anthropology associations.