Dr. Sushree Sangita Mohanty is an applied anthropologist, educator, and researcher with over twelve years of experience in indigenous education, linguistic sustainability, and the integration of emerging technologies for social impact. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Hyderabad. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of Project K-MUSE, and Head of the Centre for Indigenous Languages & Narratives at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) University, Bhubaneswar. Dr. Mohanty is currently an independent researcher and consultant with International Institute for the Inclusive Museum.
Dr. Mohanty led the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize-winning Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education program at KISS, benefiting over 40,000 indigenous children across Odisha. Her work spans multilingual curriculum development, AI- and NLP-enabled tools, and STEM education in indigenous languages to support language revitalization. She is the editor of Applying AI-Based Tools and Technologies Towards Revitalization of Indigenous and Endangered Languages (Springer, 2024) and an editorial board member of The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum. She was recognized with the Emerging Scholar Award by the Common Ground Research Network, USA, and the Emerging Anthropologist Award at the World Anthropology Congress, 2023.
As a Fulbright-Nehru scholar at the CyberSocial Learning Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Mohanty is developing culturally responsive, AI-supported educational prototypes that embed indigenous languages into mother-tongue-based multilingual learning environments, drawing on comparative insights from indigenous education contexts in both India and the United States.