Charles Zuckerman
Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Charles Zuckerman is a linguistic anthropologist who studies how cultural categories mediate ethical life in human interaction. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Formative Education at the Lynch School of Education & Human Development. Most of his long-term research has been in Laos, but over the past few years, he has become increasingly interested in how people across the world are using new communicative technologies to cultivate ethical dispositions. His current book project explores the moral economy of gambling in Luang Prabang, Laos, and the language that make this moral economy legible and politically actionable. The result is a rethinking of how scholars should understand the roles named categories play in our lives. He is the founder and organizer of BC's Replays Interaction Lab, a space for collaboratively studying the details of communicative interactions. He thinks best and has the most fun when thinking aloud with others.
Official evaluation summary
Courses taught
- FORM2051 Learning Cultures
- FORM8830 Anthropology of Formative Experience
- FORM2252 Language Learners in Global Perspective
- FORM4900 Senior Seminar in Transformative Education
- FORM4101 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM4962 Senior Thesis II
- FORM7101 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM7103 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM7104 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM9911 Doctoral Continuation
- FORM9988 Dissertation Direction
- EDUC9864 Advanced Qualitative Research