Elizabeth Schwall earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University (History, 2016), and has held a Mellon Dance Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University (2016-18) and a Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University (2018-19). She has taught at Stanford University and currently teaches Latin American History courses at University of California, Berkeley. Her book manuscript examines dance and politics in Cuba, and her research has appeared in the journals Hispanic American Historical Review, Dance Chronicle, Cuban Studies, Studies in Musical Theatre, and the edited volume The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980.