Elizabeth Covington
Executive Director

Elizabeth Covington is Executive Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison European Studies Alliance. She holds a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in sociology from the University of Paris VII as well as a Ph.D. in modern European history from UCLA. From 1993 to 1995 Elizabeth worked as Fellow on an Andrew Mellon project on the effects of postmodern discourse on undergraduate and graduate learning in the social sciences, which resulted in the co-authored Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective (Routledge, 1996). As Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, she collaborated with literary theorists and historians on "Oscar Wilde and the Fin-de-Siècle," sponsored by the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. She has taught European and world history, French, and English, at universities in southern California and Paris. Elizabeth is currently teaching European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has recently offered courses including "The Politics of the Green Voter and the Consumer" (European Studies 804). Elizabeth is currently completing comparative work on European consumerism in the European enlargement era, and has published "Sovereigns in the Marketplace: Changes in the Regime of Goods, 1880-present," Eurostudia: Revue transatlantique de recherché sur l'Europe 4 (2006), (http://www.cceae.umontreal.ca/-revue-Eurostudia-), which will appear in French in 2008 in Lieux et emprises de la souveraineté. Approches nordaméricaines et européennes d'un concept-clé de la pensée politique, sous la direction d'Alain Deneault et Dietmar Köveker, (Québec: PUL/Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme). She has recently been awarded German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and UW- Madison Center for International Business and Research (CIBER) grants for the project "Greening Business: Involving Consumers."

Contact information:
Suite 213, Ingraham Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison WI 53706
Tel: (608) 265-4778
Fax: (608) 265-9541
Email: eecovington@wisc.edu