Professor Kamal K. Misra is a former Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneswar, India. He was a Professor of Anthropology, Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, and was also the Dean of the School of Social Sciences there. He taught for 41 years, from 1978 to 2019, without any break. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India, M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Post-Doc from the University of Kent, UK. He taught at Utkal University, University of Hyderabad (both in India) and at Austin College, Texas, USA. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Anthropology, Environmental Studies and Linguistics. He has written and edited 24 books and about 100 research papers on different sub-disciplines of Anthropology, Human Ecology, Linguistics and Museology. He was the Director of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and the Director of Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata. While the former is the largest ethnographic Museum of Asia, the latter is the largest anthropological research organization under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He has a distinguished career as an anthropologist, who was awarded Utkal University Gold Medal, Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Award, Sarat Chandra Roy Memorial Medal, among others. He was the Member of the High-Level Committee (Xaxa Committee) on the Status of Scheduled Tribes of India and was a Guest Researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. Professor Misra was a consultant for the UNDP, Action Aid and other International Development Agencies at different times. Currently he is an ICSSR Senior Research Fellow affiliated to the NKC Centre for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Prof. Misra could be contacted by email, [email protected]
