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Emilie Glazer is an anthropologist whose research explores care, justice, and political violence in the changing ecologies of the climate crisis. Her PhD, completed at University College London and supported by the Wellcome Trust, examined the politics of water in the city of Jerusalem. During her fellowship at the MPIWG, Emilie will develop the book manuscript based on this research. The project follows the consequences of emerging water technologies in a landscape marked by occupation, tracing how the politics of water extend into embodied and affective realms, reconfiguring the reach of political violence and refusal.
Alongside this research, together with colleagues at the Royal College of Art and the Fiction Council, in 2024 Emilie was co-awarded the Anhar: Climate and Culture grant to run “The Rain Collectors,” a collective focused on water in Palestine through ancient mythology, ritual, and ancestral knowledge. Emilie has served as lecturer in Social Anthropology at King’s College London since 2025, and has taught at University of Oxford, University College London, and the Royal College of Art. In addition to academia, Emilie has produced interdisciplinary community and place-based projects, and worked as a design researcher. She holds a Masters in Anthropology from University College London and a BA in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from the University of Oxford.