Elizabeth Long Lingo, Assistant Director



Elizabeth Long Lingo, Assistant DirectorElizabeth Long Lingo is Assistant Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy at Vanderbilt University and an adjunct assistant professor at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management.  Elizabeth completed her Ph.D. in Harvard University and Harvard Business School’s joint program in Organizational Behavior and Sociology.

Elizabeth is an ethnographer who examines the systems and processes through which creative projects, ventures and policies are developed.  She is particularly interested in the “nexus work” of entrepreneurial leaders who manage across occupational and organizational interstices to effect change and bring novel concepts to fruition.  Elizabeth has studied nexus work, and the structures that support this work, in several contexts: the commercial music industry, the Nashville creative scene, and in the national performing arts field.

Elizabeth has consulted to Fortune 500 companies on issues of trust, risk taking, speaking up and customer loyalty, and to the nonprofit and for-profit performing arts sectors on their potential for change and collective action. Elizabeth was a graduate fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School in 2003-2004.  She also holds a masters degree in Sociology from Harvard and a bachelors degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Email: elizabeth.long.lingo@vanderbilt.edu