Elizabeth C. Strauss
Co-Vice President
Elizabeth grew up in Charlotte, NC. She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2002 with a BA in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Upon completing an interdisciplinary transatlantic curriculum at UNC and Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, Elizabeth was awarded an MA in Political Science in 2003. She also earned an MA and Ph.D. in History from the University of Notre Dame in 2014.
After moving to Gettysburg with her husband, Charles, in late 2013, Elizabeth began work as a contributor to the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies’ Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos project at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In fall 2016, she joined the faculty at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD as an assistant professor in the Department of History. Drawn to the institution’s mission to empower women and eliminate racism, Elizabeth and Charles joined the YWCA immediately upon moving to Gettysburg. An avid runner, Elizabeth enjoys the Y and its environs for training. In addition, Elizabeth is a proud mother of four children—Anna, Charlie, Tessa, and Peter—all of whom have benefited in profound ways from the caring and committed community at the YWCA’s childcare center.