Roluahpuia is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT. He obtained his PhD from TISS, Guwahati. He has held teaching and fellow positions at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, and IIT Guwahati. He was awarded the Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian South Asia Visiting Fellowship, 2018-19, at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University, United States.

His published work has appeared in noted journals, including Asian Ethnicity, Contemporary South Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, Himal South Asian, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Nations and Nationalism. His book titled Nationalism in the Vernacular: States, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India (2023) was published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Puia’s research interest broadly covers, among others, identity, nationalism, development, and borderland studies.