About
Caitlin Zaloom is a cultural anthropologist and a professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She studies the cultural dimensions of finance, technology, and economic life. Her latest book, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, explores how the financial pressures of paying for college has reshaped middle-class family identity. Zaloom is also author of articles in many leading journals and Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. She is founding editor of Public Books, and co-editor of the recent volumes Think in Public and The Long Year: A 2020 Reader. Zaloom’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and her work has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education among others.
Awards
- Supported by the National Science Foundation
- Supported by Russell Sage Foundation
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, 2016-2017
- Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, 2013-14
Relevant Publications
- Zaloom, Caitlin (2023). Financialization and the Household. Annual Review of Anthropology (forthcoming, October)
- Zaloom, Caitlin (2019). Indebted: How Families Make College Work At Any Cost. Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Zaloom, Caitlin (2018). A Right to the Future. Cultural Anthropology, 33 (4): 558-569,