Elizabeth Keating
Elizabeth Keating is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught for over 20 years. A linguistic anthropologist, her research focuses on cultural aspects of communication, cross-cultural communication, and narrative.
Keating has always been fascinated by human interactions and how they reflect culture. In the 1990s, she did her first anthropology fieldwork on Pohnpei, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean located north of New Guinea and east of the Philippines. Subsequently, she researched sign language communication in the Deaf community, computer gamers, the impacts of cell phones in 15 countries, and communication among interdisciplinary teams collaborating to design an innovative cancer treatment tool. Most recently, she researched engineers working together virtually from four continents, which resulted in the book Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office (University of California Press, 2016), co-authored with Sirkka Jarvenpaa.
Keating has been a visiting scholar at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, and has given over 75 talks at national and international venues.
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