Dr Elena Liber

Lecturer - Digital Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, UCL

  • About Me

    Anthropologist with expertise in memory, storytelling, Ukraine, TikTok and the digital.

  • Ukraine Research

    Doctoral research project: “And that’s how it was”: Small stories of big histories in post-Soviet Ukraine. Funded by AHRC CHASE.

    Currently exploring the many ways Ukrainians are narrating the experience of Russia’s full-scale invasion on TikTok.

  • TikTok Ethnography Project

    Co-founder of the TikTok Ethnography Collective experimenting with collaboration, creative writing, drawing and visual and digital methodologies to ethnographically explore the world of TikTok.

  • Teaching

    Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching at UCL.

    Co-convenor of the MSc Digital Anthropology 2025-26.

    Teaching includes: Multimodal Anthropology, Digital Anthropology, Anthropological Methods, Critical Pedagogy, and more.