
Dr Elena Liber
Lecturer - Digital Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, UCL
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About Me
Anthropologist with expertise in memory, storytelling, Ukraine, TikTok and the digital.
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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.
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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.
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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.