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Elizabeth Higgs

Elizabeth Higgs

Lecturer
Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Florida

232D McElhinney Hall
ewhiggs@central.uh.edu

Bio

Dr. Elizabeth Higgs is currently a part-time Lecturer in the undergraduate Anthropology program in CCS.  She was previsouly Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgia Gwinnett College, and also previously taught at Flagler College (St. Augustine, Florida), and Western Illinois University.  She has published in peer-reviewed academic journals, including:  the Journal of American Folklore, Florida Journal of Anthropology, and Latinamericanist, and has published six chapters in edited books.  Dr. Higgs has been a recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Florida Endowment for the Humanities, and the Georgia Humanities Council.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where she was a U.S. Fulbright Doctoral Fellow in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  She completed ethnographic, archival, and qualitative field research on working-class women in Worker’s Party organizations and union movements in Brazil.  Dr. Higgs has presented more than twenty professional conference papers and presentations in the United States and Brazil.  She also earned an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia; an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from Mississippi State University; and a B.A. in Psychology from Harding University.  Dr. Higgs has also worked for the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Preservation, Bureau of Florida Folklife documenting traditional folk arts.  Her research interests include gender, art and cultural resistance, and Brazilian social movements.