Elizabeth creates and writes at the intersection of public history, dress, labor and performance. She is the archivist and curator for the Le Gip Archive, a historic clothing collection that preserves the creative production, personal clothing, and ephemera of Byron Le Gip- an African American fashion designer, dancer and drummer active in NYC from 1949-1985. She is the Humanities Program Coordinator at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, where she designs exhibits, directs the internship program and develops programming. In 2013 Elizabeth co-founded TheatreTruck, an arts collective and organizing tool that makes site-specific and mobile performance from the historical record.
She is pursuing a PhD in Public History at UMass Amherst. She taught dress history and performance history, most recently at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, UMASS Amherst and Westfield State. She is a member of the LGBTQ+ History Association, the Interpreting Slavery NEMA Community of Practice, and the MuseumTen Museum Educator Working Group.