Emma Crewe is an anthropologist based at SOAS (University of London) working on politics, governance and identity in organisations, especially parliaments. 

She is currently co-ordinating a research coalition to support national scholars and artists in Myanmar and Ethiopia to undertake research on the relationship between politicians and society at SOAS with Enlightened Research Foundation Mynamar, Forum for Social Studies (Addis Ababa), Leeds University, JNU (New Delhi), Hansard Society.

She has recently embarked on a new European Research Council funded programme guiding a coalition of anthropologists to study parliaments in six countries and has nearly finished a new book: the Anthropology of Parliaments.