Elizabeth Lilliott, PH.D., Anthropology
Associate Research Scientist
Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Phone: 505-765-2330
Email: lilliott@bhrcs.org


Liz Lilliott is an associate researcher for the Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest. She has worked for the Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest since July 2005 for a NIDA study, “Drug Use, Ethnicity, and Help-Seeking among Rural Youth”. She interviewed substance abusing youth, their social supports, and behavioral health providers about the special needs of these youth residing in southwestern New Mexico. Since December of 2005, Dr. Lilliott has participated as local evaluator of a SPF-SIG grantee, providing research support for the prevention of youth drinking and driving in southwestern New Mexico.

Prior to joining BHRCS, Dr. Lilliott worked 2 years as Academic Coordinator for Trent in Ecuador, a Canadian undergraduate study abroad and service program of Trent University. While in Ecuador, she continued her collaboration established during her doctoral research with indigenous political organizations and national development NGOs. Liz has worked in numerous qualitative research investigations in South America and the American Southwest on issues around culture, gender, poverty, ethnicity, health, education and economic development. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, gender, development and Latin American Studies.

Dr. Lilliott graduated in 2003 with a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with a focus on Latin American and Activist Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a 1997 Masters of Arts in Social Anthropology from the same program. Her 1992 Bachelor of Arts is from the University of California at Berkeley, in Medical Anthropology and Spanish Language and Literature.
Dr. Lilliott belongs to the Latin American Studies Association, and has served as a founding member of the sections of Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples, and Ecuadorian Studies. She also belongs to the American Anthropological Society and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Liz is fluent in Spanish.