Profile for Elizabeth Peacock

Elizabeth Peacock Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor

Archaeology & Anthropology

Specialty area(s)

Sociolinguistics, youth identity and belonging, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, postsocialism, global communication, diasporas and homelands

Current courses at UWL

ANT 101: Human Nature/Human Culture (Fall, Spring, every other Summer)

ANT 196: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (every Fall)

ANT/HIS 312: Peoples and Cultures of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (study abroad)

ANT 323: Anthropology of Childhood and Youth

ANT 358: Language Policy and Activism in Europe

ANT 375: Language, Power, and Inequality

ANT 401: Ethnographic Methods

ANT 495: Senior Thesis in Cultural Anthropology (every Spring)

ANT 496: Honors Thesis in Cultural Anthropology (every Spring)

Education

2011. Ph.D. in Anthropology. University of California, San Diego.
2003. M.A. in Anthropology. University of California, San Diego.
2000. B.A. in Anthropology and Political Science. University of Kansas.

Career

Research and publishing

Accepted “Creating Novel Cultures: Practicing Cultural Relativism and Building Empathy in a General Education Course.” In Co-Construction in Higher Education. Susan Koseogly, Angelica Pazurek, and Angeliki Voskou (eds.).

2019. “Youth in Ukraine.” In Teen Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia. Karen Wells (ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

2018 “Navigating Competing Identities through Stance-Taking: A Case of Ukrainian Teenagers. Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity 2(1): 62-74.

2016 “The Spatiotemporal Ambivalences of Youth Identities: Striving to be Authentic, yet Worldly.” In Identities and Subjectivities. Nancy Worth, Claire Dwyer, and Tracey Skelton (eds.). Geographies of Children and Young People, Volume 4. Pp. 493-510. Springer Singapore.

2015 “National Identity and Language: Class Differences among Youth in Western Ukraine.” Global Studies of Childhood 5(1): 59-73.

News

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Kudos

published

Elizabeth Peacock, Archaeology & Anthropology, authored the chapter "Sign: A Game About Being Understood" in "Games for Higher Education: 100+ Games for Academic Training," published on March 23 by ZMS (Zentrum fur Management Simulation).

Submitted on: April 3

published

Elizabeth Peacock, Archaeology & Anthropology, authored the chapter "Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies" in "Games for Higher Education: 100+ Games for Academic Training," published on March 23 by ZMS (Zentrum fur Management Simulation).