Uzma Z. Rizvi is an anthropologist/archaeologist and has been an active cultural producer since 1993. Based out of Brooklyn since 2002, her work spans performance/theater, documentary, and radio. She is an active committee member of SATAM (South Asian Theater Arts Movement) as well as a member of Visible Collective. She is a board member for the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective and has worked with SAWCC as co-curator for In a State of Emergency? Women, War, and the Politics of Urban Survival (2006) and authored Collective Utopia: Zennana as the Public Sphere, a catalog essay for Sultana’s Dream, SAWCC’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition (2007). She recently co-edited Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique (Altamira 2008); and previously served as Chair and Faculty Fellow for the Initiative on Art, Community and Social Change at the Pratt Center for Community Development. Returning from her one-year hiatus (humanities post-doc at Stanford University), Uzma re-emerges in Brooklyn as Assistant Professor in Urban Studies, in the Departments of Social Science and Cultural Studies, and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute.
