Elizabeth Keating is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research interests include societal impacts of technology, visual and multimodal communication, virtual work groups, cross-cultural communication, language and hierarchy, knowledge transfer in families, and anthropological methods in cross-disciplinary research. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Keating is the author of Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office and Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender, and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia.