Normoda Doley is a linguist working on the documentation, description, and digital archiving of under-resourced languages of Northeast India, with a primary focus on Mising (Tibeto-Burman, Eastern Tani branch). She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2021–2026), where her doctoral thesis, A Grammar of the Pagro Variety of Mising, was supervised by Prof. Pauthang Haokip.
Her broader research interests include language endangerment and shift, sociolinguistics, and the use of digital humanities methods for language archiving. Her work has appeared in journals including Himalayan Linguistics and the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, and she is currently preparing a grammar monograph based on her doctoral research. Her doctoral studies were supported by the UGC Junior and Senior Research Fellowships, Government of India.
Away from her desk, she is usually found in the garden or being thoroughly outranked by her dogs.
