Elizabeth Keating

Professor

Elizabeth Keating is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin who specializes in culture and communication. She recently published her third book, which reached #1 on Amazon’s “Movers & Shakers in Books” in the first week of publication, and was #1 in cultural anthropology the week after. The book, The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations, takes an anthropological approach to finding out about your own family history, and the Essential Questions help you to uncover new sides of family members you’ve known all your life.
Elizabeth’s academic research and writing focuses on culture and communication and impacts of technology on communication. She’s done fieldwork in several world areas including Micronesia, Europe, South Asia, and the U.S. She has presented talks and papers in 15 countries on a variety of topics in language and culture, and authored or co-authored over 50 publications. She has given talks about her research on communication in global teams at Google and in other business settings. She’s been a professor in the department of anthropology at UT Austin for over 25 years.
For fun she loves hiking, travel, and talking to people about their lives and experiences.