Emilie le febvre

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Dr. Emilie Le Febvre leds 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.

Her research focuses on scaled representational politics, visual historicity, archival activism, and local knowledge-making (drawing on people’s own social and historical orientations) in the Middle East. Her work documents the changing ways people represent themselves and their histories in pursuit of rights in conflict environments. Le Febvre takes an interdisciplinary approach to research drawing on both archives and fieldwork, radical empirical methodologies, and photographic encounters. She is currently working on a knowledge mobilization project that brings social scientists, filmmakers, historians, and  activists together to explore the potential of web documentaries for innovating the production of scholarship.

Le Febvre has received several awards for her research (PARC 2011, Wenner Gren 2012, and the BRIMES Award 2017). She is the author of Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach (forthcoming 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 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 and researchers with disabilities.