Social Studies and Humanities with Elizabeth Eliades

My name is Elizabeth Boggs Eliades. I have been fascinated by history since I was a small child listening to my grandmother telling me stories about the kings and queens of England, her native land. I studied European history at Princeton University where I wrote my senior thesis on the first Tate Gallery in London. After college I earned a J.D. at Yale Law School where I became interested in the history of law and legal institutions. I worked as a lawyer for a couple of years before returning to graduate school at Harvard where I earned an M.A. in European History and taught sophomore concentrators in history. While in graduate school, I spent two years working in German historical archives studying the practice of commercial law in 19th-century Hamburg. I am fluent in German and write poetry for fun. I am learning how to play the cello.