Elizabeth Garner Masarik is an Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. Her book The Sentimental State: How Women-led Reform Built the American Welfare State ispublished by the University of Georgia Press.
Garner Masarik published Spiritualism's Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Seances in Lily Dalewith Cornell University Press. This book is co-written with the producers of Dig: A History Podcast.
She is the author of “Por la Raza, Para la Raza: Jovita Idar and Progressive-era Mexicana Maternalism in the Texas-Mexican Border,” published in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. The article won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians.