香港中文大学人类学博士；中山大学人类学硕士、学士。

牛津大学国际移民研究所访问学者。

Ph.D. in Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

B.A. & M.A. in Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University.

Visiting Study Fellow, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford.

中国人民大学社会与人口学院人类学讲师（2018年起）

香港中文大学文化遗产中心研究助理（2015 – 2016年）

香港中文大学人类学系助教（2011 – 2015年）

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Renmin University of China, 2018-

Research Assistant, Cultural Heritage Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015-16.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011-15.

Lin, Dan. 2018. Racial Encounters and Migrant Experiences: How Africans and Chinese Interact in a Globalising China, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Mathews, Gordon, Linessa Dan Lin, and Yang Yang. 2017. The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

研究生课程：

《人类学理论史》《婚姻、家庭与亲属制度》《宗教人类学》《西方人类学经典民族志导读》

本科生课程：

《民族志》《人类学通论》

Postgraduate courses:

History of Anthropological Theory

Marriage, Family and Kinship

Anthropology of Religion

Reading World Ethnography

Undergraduate course:

Doing Ethnography

Understanding Anthropology