Shandana Waheed is an archaeological anthropologist. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University and is also affiliated with the Stanford Archaeology Center. She specializes in the archaeology of architectural heritage while teaching anthropology, post-colonial critique, critical heritage studies, urbanism, climate change, and human rights. Her doctoral research, which focuses on pre-partition architectural heritage in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan, contributes to a rethinking of a critical period in South Asian history. Through interdisciplinary approaches to global heritage, her work seeks to reconceptualize ways of understanding, preserving, and interpreting the past, making it relevant to present-day global concerns. Her research and teaching are rooted in ethical, community-engaged, and decolonial methodologies.