B.A. 2000, University of Kansas), specializing in cultural and linguistic anthropology. Her research focuses on issues of ethnic identity and community/belonging, specifically as it relates to language among the first generation of independent Ukraine. Currently, she is examining narratives of familial immigration among Ukrainian-Americans in Chicago, in order to better understand the competing notions of national identity among the diaspora community and the recent immigrants from Ukraine. Among other courses at UW-L, Elizabeth teaches Peoples and Cultures of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the Anthropology of Youth and Adolescence.