Dr. Elizabeth Matelski enters her sixth academic year (2024-25) as an NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative for the athletics department. The Faculty Athletics Representative serves as a bridge between the students and the faculty and staff. 

Dr. Matelski is a New England transplant from the upper midwest. Her teaching interests include American pluralism, popular culture, and incorporating the digital humanities in the classroom. Most recently she created an interdisciplinary Public History concentration for Endicott`s history majors. She is currently writing a book chapter on the history of global beauty culture and conducting research for a new book on American youth, fitness, and the federal government. 

Education

Loyola University Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy in American History
2011

Ripon College
Bachelor of Arts in History
2003

Research

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history with an emphasis on women, gender, and sexuality, public history, popular culture, race, class, and urban history.