Professor Sabita Acharya is an Indian Anthropologist and expert in Social and Cultural Anthropology who holds the Commonwealth Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award, granting her the experience of working at the prestigious University of Oxford U.K in the year 2002. She has served as the Chairperson of Post Graduate Council, and Director of College Development Council, in Utkal University in the term 2019-2020. She has been teaching and gaining research experience for over the last three decades. She has done her doctoral work on "Anthropology of Pilgrimage at Puri and Simhachalam" in the year 1991 from Utkal University. She has undertaken fieldwork in different tribal and rural villages to study different aspects of rural and tribal communities including PVTGs (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups) of Odisha.

She has presented research-based papers in various academic forums like world congresses organised by International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences (IUAES) at China, Manchester, Brazil, Poland and institutions like University of Tuebingin and Goethe University, Germany. As a prolific writer, she has penned over 60 research articles and edited three books maintaining academics at the peak of her priorities. Her book "Pilgrimage of Indian Civilization" is highly acclaimed by researchers and students alike. She has been trusted and credited with completing many research projects including being awarded a Major Research Project by University Grants Commission (UGC). After a successful stint in educational and administrative roles, she has superannuated from service on 30th April 2020. Presently, she has been appointed as the first lady Vice Chancellor of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar since November 2020.