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Elizabeth Peacock
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor
Archaeology & Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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 (every fall)
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
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.
2012 "The Authentic Village and the Modern City: The Space-Time of Class Identities in Urban Western Ukraine." Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review 30(1): 213-236.
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