She is an associate professor of history at American University, where she researches modern Britain, mass media, and politics.
Beers earned a bachelor of arts, summa cum laude, in history from Princeton University in 2000.
[1] From October 2007 to September 2008, she was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge through funding from the Economic and Social Research Council.
Beers was a postdoctoral fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge from October 2008 to August 2009.
[2] Beers is an associate professor in the department of history at American University College of Arts and Sciences.