Director of Research and Arts

Emilie Le Febvre leads research at PLEDJ. She has a DPhil and MSc in Anthropology from the  University of Oxford and an interest in the transregional Naqab, Sinai, and Transjordan deserts. She has carried out long-term, multi-sited fieldwork amongst Bedouin in Naqab for over ten years. She is also an associate researcher with the Global Social Justice and Peace Initiative at McGill University and  highly committed to knowledge mobilization (KMb) and translation (KT) projects that innovate the production  of academic research through multi-media and digital innovations, collaborative exchange, and co-creation.

Her research documents the changing ways people represent themselves and their histories. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to qualitative research drawing on storytelling, ethnographic fieldwork, and multimodal anthropology to document local knowledge-making practices based on people’s own social and historical orientations amongst conflict-affected people in the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. Le Febvre has received several awards for her research (PARC 2011, Wenner Gren 2012, and the BRISMES Award 2017). She is the author of Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach (Routledge 2024), and the co-author of Palestinian Activism in Israel: A Bedouin Women Leader in a Changing Middle East (Palgrave 2012 with Amal Alsana Alhjooj and Henriette Dahan-Kalev). For more details, see www.emilieklefebvre.com.

 

Before joining PLEDJ in 2023, Le Febvre was a Postdoctoral and Associate Researcher at the University of Oxford, the Director of Development at Achoti in Tel Aviv, and research consultant for nonprofits working in Israel-Palestine, the United Kingdom, the EU, and North America. Her preferred pronouns are she/her/hers. She has APD (auditory processing disorder) and dyslexia, and advocates for women academics with disabilities.