{"id":20323,"date":"2026-03-25T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/?page_id=20323"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:48:14","slug":"elizabeth-peacock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-program\/2025-26-wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars\/elizabeth-peacock\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associate Professor
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\"\"I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, specializing in cultural and linguistic anthropology. I joined UWL in 2013, where I currently teach courses on language and inequality, Eastern European cultures, ethnographic methods, and the cultural anthropology thesis capstone. I also co-lead a summer study abroad program, Culture and Politics in Budapest, Hungary, and have completed Collaborative Online International Learning projects with a Ukrainian colleague into two linguistic anthropology courses. My research focuses on issues of identity and community belonging among youth, focusing on language and practice. In the past, I have examined how young people navigate social and political change in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States. My WTFS project focuses on a whole-class collaborative role-playing game I designed for my 70+ student, General Education, introduction to anthropology class. I aim to assess to what extent the game increases students\u2019 understanding of core course concepts, the value of cultural relativism, and their tolerance of cultural differences. Outside of work, I spend time with my spouse and two kids, knitting when the cat and kids allow me to, consuming science fiction everything, and acquiring LEGO. Currently, I aspire to teach a course on the Anthropology of Games & Play, as well as to become a certified LEGO teacher trainer.<\/p>\n

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TEACHING AND LEARNING PHILOSOPHY<\/strong><\/h6>\n

In my courses, I expose students to a wide variety of cultural beliefs, behaviors, and practices. My job as a teacher-scholar is to help them see how anthropology can be a lens through which they can make sense of the similarities and differences among people worldwide. I believe that exposure to the anthropological perspective, with its emphasis on holistic, cross-cultural, and empirical research, can help students gain a better understanding of the diversity of the human experience, from our earliest beginnings to the multiethnic, multilingual, globalized world in which we live. I also aim for our students to master skills that will benefit them in a variety of fields beyond their academic career. Such skills include effective written communication, critical inquiry, and an appreciation for diversity, in addition to the hands-on skills learned through the research process.<\/p>\n

My main teaching objectives are:
\n\u2022 To help students reflect on and revise the misconceptions they have about human biological and cultural differences
\n\u2022 To help students see how theories and concepts can be used to analyze and explain real-world experiences
\n\u2022 To help students connect course materials to their lived experiences, through in-class examples, co-constructed activities, and hands-on, research-based projects with flexibility in topic and assessment format
\n\u2022 To demonstrate the applicability of anthropological skills to a wide range of career paths, with community engaged learning projects<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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