Elizabeth Spaeth is a Ph.D student in United States History researching international students, migration, and social history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Anthropology at The George Washington University. She taught abroad for several years in the Federated States of Micronesia, Mexico, and the Philippines. In 2017, she received her Master of Arts from the University of Chicago’s Program in the Social Sciences with a thesis centered on the visual representation of race and violence in the Philippine-American War. She then taught special education in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood for two years while studying for a Master of Arts in Teaching Special Education. She is in her third year of IU’s PhD program in US History.
Elizabeth Spaeth
PhD Student, United States History
