Sumedha Dutta teaches at the Department of Sociology at South Asian University (SAU). Her work addresses the relationship between  civil society, religion, development and identity, while she is also interested in the sociology of gender. She taught the course Economy and Society in her first semester at SAU, while she previously taught a varied range of courses, including Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Gender, Indian Society: Structures and Processes, Advanced Sociological Theories, Classical Sociological Thinkers, Environmental Sociology, Social Stratification and Mobility, Research Methods, Urban Sociology etc. She has been invited to deliver talks in Austria, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uruguay and Uzbekistan, and has travelled to 18 countries across 5 different continents. Based on her experiences, she is currently pursuing her research in Sociology of Tourism. She was elected as Early Career Researcher for Research Committee in Sociology of Religion, RC – 22, International Sociological Association (ISA), for the period 2023-2027, and  was awarded the Exchange scholar Award to visit Thailand for 20 days under ICSSR-NRCT Bilateral Programme for Exchange of Scholars in 2018. She has also served as Visiting Faculty in the National Institute of Design (NID), Bengaluru, in 2022, and as Assistant Professor in Central University of Punjab (2015-2025), Central University of Haryana (2014-2015), and Jesus and Mary College (2011-2012) and as a Guest Faculty in Hindu College (2012).