Rita P. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor emeritus at New York University.^[1]

She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in 1975 and from Harvard University with an M.A. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1984. She specializes in Near East societies, the Indus Civilisation^[2] and gender roles. She currently teaches the introductory archaeology course, required for the anthropology major at the university.

Awards

• 1988 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-57652-9
• "Third Millennium Changing Times" (2009) - Archaeological Dialogues 16(2):142-148.
• "Gendered relations" in Ur III Dynasty: Kinship, Property and Labor". Gender through Time. Editor Diane R. Bolger, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7591-1092-2
• "Exploring Unknown Lands and Bringing New Worlds into Gender Studies", Are all warriors male?: gender roles on the ancient Eurasian Steppe, Editors Katheryn M. Linduff, Karen Sydney Rubinson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7591-1074-8
• Water Supply and History: Harappa and the Beas Settlement Survey (2008). Co-authoried, R. Wright, R. Bryson and J. Schuldenrein. Antiquity, Vol. 82, 315:37-48.
• "Gender Matters -- A Question of Ethics", Ethical issues in archaeology, Editors Larry J. Zimmerman, Karen D. Vitelli, Julie Hollowell-Zimmer, Rowman Altamira, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7591-0271-2
• "Prehistory of Urbanism" (2002) - Encyclopedia of Urbanism, M. and C. Ember, ed., Grolier Press.
• Craft and Social Identity (1998) (with Cathy L. Costin, eds.). Washington D.C. American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division Monograph 8.
• Gender and Archaeology, Editor Rita P. Wright, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8122-1574-8
• "Women's Labor and Pottery Production in Prehistory", Engendering archaeology: women and prehistory, Editors Joan M. Gero, Margaret Wright Conkey, Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, ISBN 978-0-631-17501-8