Amber Wutich

Wutich is an anthropologist, President’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and director of the Center for Global Health at ASU. An expert on water insecurity, Wutich directs the Global Ethnohydrology Study, a cross-cultural study of water knowledge and management in 20+ countries. She was named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow for her two decades of community-based fieldwork exploring how people cope and respond, individually and collectively, to extremely water-scarce conditions. She leads National Science Foundation Action for Water Equity, a participatory convergence study that develops collaborative water solutions with water-insecure U.S. communities. Her teaching has been recognized with awards such as Carnegie CASE Arizona Professor of the Year.

Photos by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.