Amber Wutich

Amber Wutich is a Regents Professor, President’s Professor, Director of the Center for Global Health, and MacArthur Fellow. An expert on water insecurity, Wutich directs the Global Ethnohydrology Study, a cross-cultural study of water knowledge and management in 20+ countries. Her two decades of community-based fieldwork explore how people respond, individually and collectively, to extremely water-scarce conditions. She leads Action for Water Equity, a participatory convergence study that develops collaborative water solutions with water-insecure U.S. communities, and Arizona Water for All, a participatory study that works with Arizona’s most water-insecure communities to improve household water security. An ethnographer and methodologist, Wutich has authored 200+ papers, co-authored 8 books, edits the journal Field Methods, and directs the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program. Her teaching has been recognized with awards such as Carnegie CASE Arizona Professor of the Year and Big 12 Professor of the Year. Wutich has raised over $80 million in research funds, as part of collaborative research teams, from NSF, USDA, USACE, the State of Arizona, and other funders.