Dr. Namrata Goswami

Dr. Namrata Goswami is an author and educator specializing in space policy, international relations, and ethnic identity. Currently, Dr. Goswami teaches in the USSF Schriever and West Space Scholar Programs and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at Emory University, teaching seminars on Technology, Society & Governance, as well as India Today. She was a guest lecturer at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and a 2024-2025 Scowcroft Fellow at the USAF Academy. She worked as a Research Fellow at MP-Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi; a Visiting Fellow at Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway; La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; University of Heidelberg, Germany; Jennings-Randolph Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace; and was a Fulbright Senior Fellowship Awardee. The Office of Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, awarded her the Minerva grant to study great power competition in outer space. In April 2019, Dr. Goswami testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on China’s space program. Her co-authored book, Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space, was published in 2020 by Lexington Press- Rowman & Littlefield (now Bloomsbury). Her book, The Naga Ethnic Movement for a Separate Homeland, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. She has published widely, including in The Diplomat, The Economic Times, The Washington Post, Ad Astra, Asia Policy, Live Encounters Magazine, and Cairo Review. She was invited in November 2019 to share about her life and her work at a TEDx event held at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.