Zachary Ugolnik

Zachary Ugolnik is the program director at CASBS. He directs a portfolio of projects to strengthen democratic governance, embed ethics in technology, and ensure sustainable livelihoods. He has been with the Center since 2020. Zachary earned his PhD from Columbia University, his master’s from Harvard University, and his BA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His work has appeared in Dædalus (with Margaret Levi, Winter 2023), Journal of Religion, Religion & Literature, and Harvard Divinity Bulletin, among other print and online publications. He has taught courses in ethics, religious studies, and philosophy at Mount Allison University, where he served as an Assistant Professor, and Columbia University, where he served as Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE).