I am a cultural anthropologist and professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University.
I’ve written books about finance and its relationship to technology, class, family and higher education.
Publications
Zaloom, C. (2019). Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost. Princeton University Press.
Zaloom, C. (2018). A Right to the Future: Student Debt and the Politics of Crisis. Cultural Anthropology, 33(4).
Zaloom, C. (2018). How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance. Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(1–2).
Zaloom, C. (2016). The evangelical financial ethic: Doubled forms and the search for God in the economic world. American Ethnologist, 43(2), 325–338.
Zaloom, C. (2012). The Ethics of Wall Street. Society for Cultural Anthropology.
Zaloom, C. (2006). Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology From Chicago to London. The University of Chicago Press.
Indebted : How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from London to Chicago