Fatumah Mirembe is a Lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Makerere University. She is an archaeologist whose scholarship focuses on African archaeology, with particular emphasis on reconstructing past technologies and cultural practices through material evidence. Her work has paid close attention to archaeological assemblages and settlement patterns, especially in Uganda’s Albertine Rift region, where she has explored long-term human–environment interactions and landscape use.
Her research also engages strongly with archaeometallurgy, notably the study of indigenous iron production technologies in eastern Uganda. Through fieldwork and laboratory analysis of furnaces, slag, tuyeres, and related materials, her work interrogates technological choices, knowledge transmission, and the social and ritual dimensions of iron production. Guided by an interdisciplinary approach that integrates archaeology, scientific analysis, and community perspectives, her scholarship contributes to heritage conservation and the decolonisation of archaeological narratives in Africa.