Rate My Professor Eric Livingston

Dr. Eric Livingston is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Sociology within the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of New England. He holds a profile as Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. Livingston earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Throughout his career at the University of New England, he has been associated with the School of Social Science, as noted in academic publication contributor biographies and addresses from 1999, including Cultures of Proving published by Sage Publications. His contact details, including phone +61 2 6773 2417, are listed consistently across university directories and profiles.

Livingston's central research interests are the study of mundane expertise, the technologies of everyday social life, and the work practices and practical reasoning of the discovering sciences. His key publications comprise several books: The Ethnomethodological Foundations of Mathematics (1986, Routledge and Kegan Paul), Making Sense of Ethnomethodology (1987, Routledge and Kegan Paul), An Anthropology of Reading (1995, Indiana University Press), Cultures of Proving (1999, Sage Publications), and Ethnographies of Reason (2008, Ashgate). Additional works include the article The Context of Proving (2006, Social Studies of Science), Context and detail in studies of the witnessable social order (2008, Language & Communication), Reading Ethnomethodology's Program (2003), and The Disciplinarity of Mathematical Practice (2015). He presented on Mundane Expertise and the Human Sensorium at the Towards the Multimodal Sensorium symposium hosted by the University of New England in 2024.