About Benjamin Linder

Benjamin Linder earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology (2019) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and he currently serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He also hold M.A. degrees in Anthropology (2013) and Environmental & Urban Geography (2018). Benjamin’s primary research examines the intersection of urban ethnography and cultural geography. Specifically, his work tracks the mutual entanglements of place-making, cultural change, and transnational mobilities in and beyond the neighborhood of Thamel in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Benjamin Linder earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2019) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is currently serving as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

NBN Episodes hosted by Benjamin:

Tim Cresswell, "Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

February 3, 2021

Maxwell Street

Tim Cresswell
Hosted by Benjamin Linder

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chica…

Sienna R. Craig, "The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York" (U Washington Press, 2020)

December 21, 2020

The Ends of Kinship

Sienna R. Craig
Hosted by Benjamin Linder

In The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020), anthropologist Sienna Craig exam…