Eric Linland
Education:
BA Political Studies (Gordon College)
MA Anthropology (Emory University)
PhD Anthropology (Emory University)
Experiences/Positions:
Visiting Assistant Professor Anthropology, Emory University (Aug 2005-May 2006)
Adjunct Instructor Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago (Jan 2009-May 2009)
Visiting Assistant Professor Anthropology, University of Notre Dame (2008-2010)
Senior Researcher, Frameworks Institute (Aug 2015-present)
Senior Research Fellow, Frameworks Institute (Jul 2010-Aug 2015)
Research Consultant, Linland Consulting (Sep 2015-present)
Publications:
Elsevier · May 1, 2014
Biography:
Eric Lindland is a cognitive anthropologist, whose research focuses on how analogies are used in language, symbolism, and ethics to bridge meanings across cultural systems. Currently serving as a senior researcher at FrameWorks and as a research consultant through Linland Consulting, he has contributed to reports on environmental health, child development, education, and criminal justice reform. Lindland has a BA in political studies from Gordon College and an MA and PhD in anthropology from Emory University, where he wrote his thesis on the “Crossroads of Culture: Religion, Therapy, and Personhood in Northern Malawi,” where he discusses the ways in which Embagweni residents in Northwestern Malawi have responded to Presbyterian missionaries and gone deeper than merely resisting the missionary oppositional model, but also “challenging an underlying dualism within the Western ontological framework itself” through the lens of theology, ethics, and ritual symbolism. He has taught anthropology at Emory University, Loyola University Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame, and also served as high school teacher and administrator in Guatemala prior to this.