Elizabeth’s book in progress, tentatively titled, Intersectional Justice Denied: Negative Peace and Persisting Violence in Post-Peace Accords El Salvador, draws on two and a half years of multi-sited ethnographic research in El Salvador. Her book examines the central paradox of Salvadoran youth gang members who are simultaneously purveyors of violence and peacemakers. Her manuscript traces how women relatives of gang members engage in a conflicting and excruciating politics of solidarity with youth gangs’ peacemaking efforts and explores the layered politics of their demands for intersectional justice.

Elizabeth is a member of a collective of activist feminist scholars with whom she is currently co-editing a volume on Fugitive Anthropology. The volume, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, centers embodiment as an analytic for the experiences of racialized women, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming politically engaged researchers in the field. The collective’s volume will contribute analytical and methodological tools for conducting decolonized fieldwork.