Hadiqa Khan is an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Project Award student, in collaboration with University College London.
Supervisors: Dr Matthew Davies and Dr Hanna Baumann (UCL), Professor Dan Hicks (Pitt Rivers Museum) and Dr Letty Ten Harkel (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
Hadiqa completed her BSc in Anthropology and Sociology with a minor in History from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, and came away with special interests in gender, colonialism, social policy, archaeology and religion. She then went on to earn an MPhil in Archaeology from the University of Oxford, where she focused on perceptions and representations of gender in the ancient Indus Valley. Hadiqa was awarded a distinction for her thesis.
Hadiqa’s CDP project examines how museums engage with forced displacement in the United Kingdom. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on museum studies, refugee studies, contemporary archaeology, material culture studies, and critical heritage studies. Focusing primarily on the Pitt Rivers Museum and, to a lesser extent, the Imperial War Museum, her work explores how museums collect, classify, store, exhibit, and interpret objects associated with displacement. The project critically examines museums as institutional actors that shape how displacement is understood, recognised, and remembered.
