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Elizabeth Stice

FPR Books Associate Editor

Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Honors Program. She is the author of Empire Between the Lines: Imperial Culture in British and French Trench Newspapers of the Great War (2023). In her spare time, she enjoys ultimate frisbee and putting together a review, Orange Blossom Ordinary.

Articles by Elizabeth Stice

Empower Those on the Front Lines

While students struggle, we ensure that all of our pieces of paper align properly and our electronic signatures are where they are supposed to be.

Magnifica Humanitas and a Healthy Realism

Magnifica Humanitas encourages us to not give up on changing the world

What Hero Can Defeat the Hydra with a Thousand Faces?

The hydra we face is not only hard to defeat; it’s hard to define.

A Fool’s Hope for Higher Education

Universities are peculiar institutions, and they need peculiar leaders.

The Exemption Option: AI and Believers

Emerging tools have to justify themselves to us more than we have to justify ourselves to emerging tools.
April 2, 2026

Don’t Call it a Comeback

We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.

The Semester the Lights Came On

When the fall semester began, several classes attempted streaks. No one expected all the classes to succeed, but it seemed especially unlikely that underclassmen would. Yet they succeeded.

You Think This Machine’s Your Friend, But It’s Not

"You’ve Got Mail" is a love letter from Kingsnorth’s Machine
December 18, 2025

The Exciting Familiar: The American Revolution, by Ken Burns and Geoffrey Ward

No filmmaker is as concerned with engaging Americans in our own stories and in our own democracy.
December 9, 2025

A Movement: Citizen Humanities?

The term "citizen humanities" argues for the complementary nature of work by academics and non-academics.

Old Warnings for New Possibilities

What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress
November 12, 2025

Only Connect

In 2024, I held my first Margarita Mile. I’ve done more since then. It’s simple. I invite a group of friends. Using sidewalk chalk, I mark a start line and…
September 1, 2025