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= Lisa Baer-Tsarfati =

Lisa Baer-Tsarfati is an American intellectual historian, digital humanist, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility advocate.

Education
In 2007, Baer-Tsarfati graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Liberal Arts and Sciences. She attended the University of Edinburgh from 2013 to 2014, where she received a Master's of Science by Research (MScR) in Scottish history. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History at the University of Guelph.

Academic Work
Baer-Tsarfati's master's research examined the concept of cultural gradation in the early-modern central Scottish Highlands, concluding that Scottish elites residing in this region regularly code-switched between Gaelic and Lowland behaviors as environment and context demanded. Since completing this work, her research focus has shifted and she now explores the relationship between ambition, authority, and gender in early-modern Scotland, Britain, and Europe. Baer-Tsarfati is particularly known for her use of word-embedding models and latent semantic text analysis to recreate historically authentic definitions of particular words and concepts.

Public History
Baer-Tsarfati is a moderator and panelist at the popular online public history project, AskHistorians. Her contributions for AskHistorians include responses on general Scottish history, the British systems of nobility, and gender history. She has also discussed her research on BBC Radio Scotland's "Time Travels" podcast.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Since 2013, Baer-Tsarfati has served on multiple diversity and inclusion boards, committees, and special commissions. As an advocate for equity and inclusion, she advises professionally on inclusive marketing and communications, government policy, and university programs.

Publications

 * "Gender, Authority, and Control: Male Invective and the Restriction of Female Ambition in Early Modern Scotland and England, 1583 –1616,” International Review of Scottish Studies 44 (2019): 35–56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21083/irss.v44i0.5901
 * “Out of the Ivory Tower, into the Digital World: Democratising Scholarly Exchange,” History 106, no. 171(2022): 287–301 (Co-authored with Fraser Raeburn and Viktoria Porter). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13259