Caitlin Zaloom

Caitlin Zaloom is Associate Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University, and Editor in Chief of Public Books, which she founded with literary scholar, Sharon Marcus. Her research examines emerging forms of knowledge and practice related to financial risk and technological and political change. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (2006) as well as articles on financial expertise, evangelical budgeting, neuroeconomics, and middle-class household finance that have been published in American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Hau, Public Culture, and Social Studies of Science. Zaloom’s forthcoming book, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost (forthcoming, 2019) examines how the financial economy has reshaped relationships between American parents and children around student debt. Zaloom has held numerous fellowships, including from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.