Faculty
Eugene W. Halton
Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1979
Research Interests
Social Theory; Public Life in America; Cultural Studies; Consumption Studies
Profile
Dr. Halton is the author of The Great Brain Suck (2008), Bereft of Reason (1995) and Meaning and Modernity (1986), all with the University of Chicago Press. He is coauthor, with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, of The Meaning of Things (1981, Cambridge University Press), which has been translated into Italian, German, and Japanese. His current projects include writing on contemporary materialism, possessions and home life, consumption as socialization, objects and animism, and the things that things say. He is writing a book on the making of modern consciousness. His website is http://www.nd.edu/~ehalton/
Contact Information
Phone: (574) 631-7140
Fax: (574) 631-9238
Office: 166 Decio Faculty Hall
E-mail: Eugene.W.Halton.2@nd.edu
Personal Web site: http://www.nd.edu/~ehalton