Mubbashir Rizvi

Mubbashir Rizvi serves as a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at American University's College of Arts and Sciences, teaching core courses including ANTH-110 Culture and Power, ANTH-150 Anthropology of Life in U.S., and ANTH-425 Anthropology of Social Movements for Spring through Fall 2025 semesters.

His academic credentials include:

• PhD, University of Texas Austin
• MA, University of Texas Austin
• BA, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Dr. Rizvi's research centers on social movements, political ecology, and racial capitalism in South Asia and its diasporas. His landmark 2019 monograph The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights in Pakistan (Stanford University Press) analyzes AMP's successful resistance against military land privatization. Current fieldwork investigates informal urbanism in Karachi's food markets and racialized memory of the Potomac River waterfront, examining how marginalized communities navigate economic precarity and violence while building coexistence.

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