Dr. Orit Gazit is a faculty member (assistant professor) in the Glocal Program for International Development and in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of Glocal's Migration & Development track. 

With academic grounding in both international relations and sociology, she applies these tools to study the fields of migration and refugees, space and borders, security and emotions.

Before joining the faculty of the Hebrew University in 2019, she completed her Ph.D. in both the Department of International Relations and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University, as well as an LL.B in the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Law.

She continued to UCLA as a Rothschild (Yad Hanadiv) post-doctoral fellow in UCLA’s International Institute and Department of Sociology, and then joined the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MBSF) at the Hebrew University, where she pursued a research project on the interrelations between migration, border crossing and emotions through classical social thought (published in International Studies Review, International Theory and the Journal of Classical Sociology).

One of her recent research projects explores the relations between migration and the environment, and another recent project focuses on the meanings of motherliness among Eritrean asylum-seeking women in Southern Tel-Aviv (with Skyler Inman, Brandeis University). Other recent research projects address the experience of (mis)trust—particularly in the context of protracted conflict, trauma, and forced migration; analyze the everyday insecurity of border areas; and focus on the aesthetics of the international through the lens of visual IR (with Oded Löwenheim).

In Glocal she teaches, among other courses, the mandatory introductory course Global Migrations in the program's migration & development track, and another course on Refugees & Development.