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:

Mobilities and Methods February 3, 2021

Maxwell Street

Writing and Thinking Place

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 Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street …

Mobilities and Methods December 21, 2020

The Ends of Kinship

Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York

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 examines the inter-generational shifts that increasingly transform the Mustang …