Dr. Eric Silverman
Research Associate
Eric Silverman is a cultural anthropologist and former Research Professor at Wheelock College, Boston. Previously, he served as the Edward Myers Dolan Professor of Anthropology at DePauw University. During his academic career, he taught courses on gender, cultural diversity, masculinity, American studies, Jewish studies, art, and globalization. He has published one book based on his studies of gender, ritual, and modernization among a Sepik River society in Papua New Guinea, where he has conducted fieldwork since the late-1980s, and co-authored two other academic anthropology books. Additionally, Eric has written two books about the American and global Jewish communities.
Eric formerly served on his local school board. He is affiliated with the Anthropology Department (previously, the Women’s Studies Research Center) at Brandeis University. He also works as a Senior Scholar at McAllister Olivarius, an international law firm specialising in sexual misconduct and other forms of injustice.
At Culture Reframed, Eric researches and writes reports on different facets and harms of the pornography industry, delivers presentations (e.g., AI and pornography), and helps writes peer-reviewed academic articles and other writings.
