Dr. Jonathan Lanman

 Jonathan Lanman was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Coordinator at the Centre of Anthropology of Mind at the Univesrity of Oxford and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at UBC. He taught as a Departmental Lecturer for the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and as a College Lecturer for Keble College from 2009-2011.

He is interested in applying the theories and tools of both social and cognitive anthropology to issues in the study of religion, atheism, morality, and intergroup relations. His DPhil research yielded both a descriptive and explanatory account of atheism in the contemporary West, which he is writing up as a monograph. At present, he is collaborating with anthropologists and psychologists on an ESRC Large Grant, entitled, Ritual, Community and Conflict, to ascertain the effects of ritualized behaviour on ingroup cohesion and intergroup relations across a range of contexts.

Major Awards

2018: Elected as Secretary General, International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion

2015: Distinguished Fellow, Aarhus University

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Dr. Jonathan Lanman now works as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture and Senior Lecturer at Queen's University in Belfast. (website)