Elizabeth Ziff is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Indianapolis with interests in reproduction, medicalization, gender, the body and the family. She is currently the Co-director for the Community Research Center (CRC) housed in the Department of Sociology at the University of Indianapolis. She received her PhD in Sociology from The New School for Social Research. Her past research examines surrogacy with a specific focus on military wives in the United States. Her current research projects and collaborations focus on sex education in Indiana, empathy in the college classroom, and curriculum development geared toward problematizing diversity and equity in social space and design construction via tangible and interactive units. Her work has been published in The Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Family Issues, Armed Forces and Society, and Sociological Forum.