Awards

ACLS Fellow (2024-2025) 

In 2024, Rizki is the recipient of one of 60 ACLS Fellowships out of 1,100 applications. As the “longest running program in ACLS’s portfolio,” the ACLS Fellowship Program “supports scholars who are poised to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in any field of the humanities or interpretive social sciences. In 2024, the program will award more than $3.6 million to 60 exceptional early-career scholars selected from a pool of 1,100 applicants through a rigorous, multi-stage peer review process.”

Honorable Mention: Best Essay in Latin American Visual Culture Studies presented by the Visual Cultures Studies Section (2021)

For his article “Familiar Grammars of Loss and Belonging: Curating Trans Kinship in Post-Dictatorship Argentina,” Rizki received honorable mention for “Best Essay in Latin American Visual Culture Studies” awarded by the Visual Culture Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. The section seeks to foster interdisciplinary exchange by creating a platform for visual culture studies that can connect scholars from diverse fields. Recognizing the centrality of visual culture, ways of seeing and mapping, and the social-spatial relationships of visuality, this section aims to attract members that ask questions raised by the creation, circulation, recycling, consumption, and reception of visual practices, literacies, and objects.

William J. Griffith University Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Duke Community (2020)

In 2020, Rizki received The William J. Griffith University Service Award from Duke University. The award recognizes a select number of graduating PhD students whose contributions to the Duke and larger communities have had a significant impact on the university. His work at the university-, community-, and state-level in North Carolina were recognized.
May 2020

All-university teaching award (2024) | UVA

In recognition of his outstanding undergraduate and graduate-level teaching and mentorship, Rizki is the recipient of the University of Virginia’s “All-University Teaching Award” (2024) awarded by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. University-wide "teaching awards are awarded annually and recognize the most dedicated, passionate, creative, and equity-minded professors who significantly and meaningfully contribute to the University’s teaching mission. Exceptional candidates are identified through a nomination process and selected by a representative committee." 

Short-listed for the Early Career Researcher Prize for best essay by the International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture (2020)

Rizki’s article “Familiar Grammars of Loss and Belonging: Curating Trans Kinship in Post-Dictatorship Argentina” was short-listed by the International Association for Visual Culture (IAVC) and the Journal of Visual Culture’s “Early Career Researcher Prize for Best Essay.” The IAVC fosters communication and exchange among individuals and institutions engaged in critical analyses of and interventions in visual culture. It supports trans-national and trans-disciplinary engagements across a wide range of communities, organizations, and platforms. The IAVC encourages and advocates inquiry and debate within the field and advocates for the critical and theoretical expansion of Visual Culture Studies in sites including the museum, the university, the artist’s studio, and emergent alternatives.

Winner of the
Sylvia Molloy Prize | Best Article in the Humanities (2024)

Rizki’s article “Gore Aesthetics: Chilean Necroliberalism and Travesti Resistance” was awarded the Sylvia Molloy Prize for “Best Article in the Humanities” (2024) by the Sexualities Section of the Latin American Studies Association. His article can be found in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies vol 32, no. 4, special issue “Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Censorship and Libidinal Politics” (December 2023): 681-703.

Fulbright Teaching Fellow (2010-2011)

US Department of Education Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
La Plata, Argentina

The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program places Fulbright recipients in universities across the globe to teach English to speakers of other languages. Rizki taught college courses in English-language learning at the National University of La Plata or the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) in La Plata, Argentina, from 2010-2011.