Liz McCabe
Director of Academic Initiatives
Liz joined the Office of the Provost in January 2026. As Director of Academic Initiatives in the Office of Undergraduate Education, she supports efforts related to academic integrity, teaching and learning in the age of AI, various policy initiatives, and emergent issues in undergraduate education.
She is Associate Professor of Instruction in Chicago Field Studies, the credit-bearing internship program in WCAS, where she has taught interdisciplinary courses on Chicago, civic engagement, labor theory and representations of work since 2009.
Liz earned her PhD in English from òòò½ÎÑ for a dissertation on the interplay between Victorian literature, anthropology and evolutionary theory. She continues to teach courses in English occasionally, most recently on detective fiction.
Liz also has served on nonprofit boards, coordinated arts-in-education programs and developed discussion of public humanities and community-engaged pedagogy on and off campus.