Elisabeth Soep

Elisabeth Soep completed her PhD at Stanford University with support from a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Her work focuses on youth discourse and cultural production, and on arts-based approaches to research, including audio and video documentary. She is co-editor, with Sunaina Maira, of the forthcoming book, Youthscapes: Popular Cultures, National Ideologies, Global Markets, which is being published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Dr. Soep has taught at San Francisco State University, delivered invited lectures at Harvard University and UC Berkeley, and is a producer and the education director at the Peabody Award-winning organization, Youth Radio, where she collaborates with youth reporters on stories for local and national outlets, including National Public Radio.