
Caitlin Zaloom
@caitlinzaloom
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NYU professor. Anthropologist. @PublicBooks editor. Author of *Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost* from @PrincetonUPress
New York City
Joined July 2013
My new book *Indebted* argues that the cost of college - and the extraordinary rise of student debt to pay for it - is fundamentally changing middle class family life. Here’s an excerpt in @nytopinion
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When getting a degree is seen as a moral obligation, families will spend whatever it takes.
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RT @lmlauramarsh: 'One city engineer said the common use of septic tanks within suburban developments was “like a person walking down the s….
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Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.
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RT @EricKlinenberg: What happened to the mutual aid networks that Americans organized to support each other in 2020, when government failed….
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The pandemic turned Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo into an activist. Then the migrant crisis arrived.
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RT @VasantDhar: Thanks to @caitlinzaloom @JohnHMcWhorter @profgalloway for perspectives on What's High About Higher Education, to @ricksmo….
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Anthropology libraries are an inspiration. Read @gilliantett on the why.
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Angry students are right to stage a sit in over the future of a beloved university library
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RT @cnewf: After @nytimes & @ChronicleReview slammed UC Berkeley's closure of its Anthropology library, @gilliantett @ft does the same. In….
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Angry students are right to stage a sit in over the future of a beloved university library
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RT @nyu_ipk: Reimagining the University Series Session 5: The University and Economic Forces (Virtual Event). Friday, May 19 (3:00 PM ET)….
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@CalAnthro library is invaluable— it’s where students learn so many things, including how to challenge the very corporate order that’s threatening to close it. Cheering for the occupiers. I wrote about their cause in @ChronicleReview
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Two visions of the university are clashing. It’s clear which side is winning.
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RT @EricKlinenberg: The Fight Over the Anthropology #Library Is a Fight for the Future of Higher Ed. @caitlinzaloom, my favorite anthropolo….
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Two visions of the university are clashing. It’s clear which side is winning.
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RT @cyountandre: Join us April 20 & 21 online or in Leiden for a workshop on "Economic Moralities: Value claims on the future" @Stefan_Anth….
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RT @ronlieber: "It’s time to value another facet of life: the power and skill of being dependent." From @lisquart, whose new book, "Bootstr….
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Americans are taught that they have to go it alone. But what if we also valued the art of dependence?
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RT @nathanheller: For a decade, humanities enrollment has plummeted. What’s going on? In this week’s @NewYorker, I report at two campuses—A….
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Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?
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RT @YesVicken: The unbearable weight of the 1915 Genocide and the making of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. My article in @PublicBooks.htt….
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From the start of Armenia’s independence in 1991, Turkey took a hostile position toward its erstwhile victim of genocide. That hostility remains.
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RT @gilliantett: Some personal news. I am thrilled to be returning Cambridge later this year (while remaining an FT columnist).
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RT @gerry_cadava: In which you will learn: where feelings come from, why it's hard to change them and stressful when we do, how emotions va….
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"We define ourselves more by certain emotions. I've never heard anybody say, 'I'm trying to get over my embarrassment and I feel so inauthentic.'"
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RT @EricKlinenberg: Great weekend read from @publicbooks: psychologist @BatjaMesquita and anthropologist @caitlinzaloom discuss how culture….
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"We define ourselves more by certain emotions. I've never heard anybody say, 'I'm trying to get over my embarrassment and I feel so inauthentic.'"
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RT @PublicBooks: For decades, the city has been understood as the site at which policing and carceral capture take place. Sociologist Jes….
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What is your favorite magazine profile of an intellectual? I’m appreciating this one about #silviafederici
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Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor.
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RT @PublicBooks: “Few have his gift for combining serious political outrage with an ebullient sense of humor.”.
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Capitalism seeks wealth to meet desires. But foraging societies follow “the Zen road to affluence”: not by getting more, but wanting less.
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RT @BatjaMesquita: I am very happy to announce publication of Between Us. The book reconsiders emotions through the lens of what they do i….
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RT @trevorpaglen: Artist here with some thoughts on the amazing JWST images. There’s a lot going on in these images that prompt us non-astr….
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