The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Elizabeth is a guest teacher in the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She serves as a consultant on a short-term project for the World Bank Group for the Human Development Group Middle East and North Africa. Her current research addresses the relationship between migration and health in the United Arab Emirates; she is working on the project in collaboration with a colleague at the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi. The project is also affiliated with the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University where she has been a researcher. Her teaching and research interests include intersections of migration and diaspora, gender, law, health and global networks.

Elizabeth holds a PhD in the History of the Middle East and North Africa from Georgetown University in Washington DC. Her thesis addresses Mediterranean migration and legal pluralism. During her time as a Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad fellow, she conducted research in Egypt, Italy and the UK. She received a certificate for Session IV of the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration at the Robert Schuman Center of Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.