Elizabeth Reddy is a social scientist. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of California at Irvine. Reddy studied engineering education as a post doc in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego from 2017-2018. She is now an Assistant Professor of Engineering, Design, & Society at Colorado School of Mines and holds a joint appointment in Geophysics.

Informed by the insights of environmental anthropology and science and technology studies, her research draws on qualitative, quantitative, and archival methodologies to develop insights into how we understand and live with risk and risk mitigation technologies.