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Uzma Z. Rizvi is an archaeologist and assistant professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute and a Visiting Scholar at Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan. Her research focuses on Ancient Pakistan and United Arab Emirates, during the third millennium BCE and ancient subjectivity, intimate architecture; memory, war, and trauma in relationship to the urban fabric, critical heritage studies at the intersections of contemporary art and history, and finally, epistemological critiques of the discipline in the service of decolonization.

Education
She graduated with a BA in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College in 1995 and received her PhD in Anthropology from the Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania in 2007.

Career
Rizvi has been Faculty Fellow and Chair for the Initiative on Art, Community Development and Social Change at the Pratt Center after having held a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (2008). Rizvi’s research has been supported by Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, the George Dales Foundation and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, among others. Rizvi is a lead tutor of Campus Art Dubai and directed (with Amal Khalaf) Global Art Forum: The Future Was, Art Dubai (2016). She organizes and contributes to Anthrodendum (formerly Savage Minds savageminds.org) and is the series editor for Springer Briefs’, Decolonizing Archaeology and Heritage. She directed the documentary ‘Telling Stories, Constructing Narratives: Gender Equity in Archaeology’ (2007).

Selected publications

 * Rizvi, U. Z. (2017). On being and care. Joining the conversation on the symmetries/asymmetries of human–thing relations. Archaeological Dialogues, 24(2), 142–144.
 * Lydon, J., & Rizvi, U. Z. (2016). Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology. Routledge.
 * Rizvi, U. Z. (2015). Crafting resonance: Empathy and belonging in ancient Rajasthan: Journal of Social Archaeology, 15(2), 254–273.