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Andrea
Abbas (a.abbas@tees.ac.uk),
University of Teesside, studies consumption
of arts, interested in how socially inclusive
artistic practices and models can be developed.
Also interested in marketisation of higher
education.
Aaron
Ahuvia (ahuvia@umch.edu),
University of Michigan-Dearborn, is looking
at the relationship between (a) consumption
and happiness, (b) theories of fashions and
trends, (c) "eBayization" vs. McDonaldization,
and (d) social marketing, which is the use
of marketing techniques to solve social problems
and promote public wellbeing.
Alison Hope Alkon (aalkon@pacific.edu),
University of the Pacific, studies farmers markets
in order to learn how social movement goals get
re(articulated) in the context of consumption-based
strategies for social change, and in how such strategies
affect issues of identity, (including race, class,
gender, place and lifestyle).
Susan
M. Alexander (salexand@saintmarys.edu),
Saint Mary's College, teaches about and researches
consumer culture in the United States with
a particular emphasis on gender identity and
media focusing on the emerging and, at times,
conflicting forms of masculinity.
Annmarie
S. van Altena (avanalt@luc.edu),
Loyola University Chicago, studies consumer
culture as it relates to gender and sociology
of the body.
Nicole D.
Anderson (nanders3@ju.edu),
Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, Florida),
teaches courses and conducts research on consuming East
and West African images in 20th/21st century cinemas;
representations of African Americans in 21st
century popular cultures; and race, globalization
and popular culture.
Christopher
Andrews (candrews@socy.umd.edu),
University of Maryland at College Park, studies
the burgeoning self-service trend and how it
is affecting various stakeholders in the supermarket
industry.
Patricia
Arend (arend@bc.edu),
Boston College, studies the relationship between
gender and consumer desire via a focus on women
and their ideas, fantasies and dreams (or lack
thereof) about weddings.
Zeynep Arsel (zarsel@jmsb.concordia.ca),
Concordia University, explores contemporary consumer
culture using historical, sociological and anthropological
methods, with particular emphasis on the ways which
social media facilitate consumption, consumer co-creation,
consumer identity expression and alternative forms
of material exchange. http://jmsb.concordia.ca/~zarsel
Diane
Barthel-Bouchier (Diane.Barthel-Bouchier@stonybrook.edu),
Stony Brook University, is working on issues
pertaining to cars and car ownership.
Stephen Bernardini (stbernar@camden.rutgers.edu),
Rutgers University-Camden, studies how children
interact with people and products over the
Internet and how children engage with people over the
Internet (such as by playing video games online).
Amy
Best (abest@gmu.edu)
George Mason University, studies youth, culture,
and social inequalities with a particular focus on
the intersection of popular cultural forms
and youth identity projects.
Tyler
Bickford (tb2139@columbia.edu),
Columbia University, studies children's
expressive practices in school, including the
sociable use of entertainment media such
as portable music and video game players, with
a focus on the media practices by which kids
position themselves in relation to adult bureaucracies
and industries. www.tylerbickford.com
Gwen
Bingle (Gwen.Bingle@mzwtg.mwn.de),
Deutsches Museum Munich, Germany, studies the
historical emergence and appropriation of fitness
and wellness in Germany, with a particular
emphasis on technologies linked to food, cosmetics,
movement and alternative health practices.
Sam
Binkley (sbinkley@thing.net),
Emerson College, addresses the consequences
of new cultures of consumption on individuality
and subjectivity in advance capitalist societies
with an emphasis on countercultures of the
60's and 70's.
Grant
Blank (grant.blank@acm.org),
American University, studies reviews of consumer
products and the arts emphasizing the production
process that generates the reviews, the various
meanings that consumers attach to reviews,
the credibility and ethics of reviews, and
the impact of reviews on society and culture.
Joseph
Bosco (josephbosco@cuhk.edu.hk ),
Chinese University of Hong Kong,studies economic
development and economic culture in Chinese
societies (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China),
focusing currently on the rise of consumerism
in mainland China.
Cara Bowman, (bowmanc@bu.edu)
Boston University, studies the ways that
consumption structures and reproduces race, class
and gender inequalities.
Keith Brown (kbrown01@sju.edu),
Saint Joseph's University, studies the construction
of markets for Fair Trade products, focusing on
how individuals are mobilized to consume and how
consumers express their moral identities.
Thomas Burr (tburr@ilstu.edu),
Illinois State University, is researching
markets as a sequence of interactions between the producers
and the consumers of a product, including marketing,
consumer organizations, and product design.
Vince
Carducci (cardv366@newschool.edu),
New School for Social Research, studies consumption
and the global system, with a particular emphasis
on how new social movements use various forms
of communication to mobilize ethical consumers
as participants in global civil society.
Joshua
Carreiro (carreiro@soc.umass.edu),
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, studies
the consumer cooperative movement and the corporatization
of "natural foods" as they relate
to contemporary notions of lifestyle consumption,
work organization, and class identity and inequality.
Gordon
C. Chang (gcchang@ucsd.edu),
University of California, San Diego, studies
the knowledges and discourses constituting
consumer society, focusing on their manifestation
in U.S. higher education, such as in the phenomenon
of college rankings and in the "high-tuition,
high-aid" policy movement.
Soma Chaudhuri (chaudh30@msu.edu),
Michigan State University, is a qualitative sociologist,
who studies gender, social movements, deviance
and contemporary witch hunts.
Katherine
Chen (chenk2@wpunj.edu),
William Paterson University, has a forthcoming
book (University of Chicago Press) and articles
examining the development of the organization
behind Burning Man, an annual temporary arts
event that promotes participation and a gift
economy.
Dilek
Cindoglu (cindoglu@bilkent.edu.tr),
Bilkent University, studies sociology everyday
life including internet, democracy, gender
studies and sexualities. Most recently focusing
on the sexualites, fashion and gender in non-western
societies.
Terry
Nichols Clark (tnclark@uchicago.edu), University
of Chicago, studies scenes in neighborhoods
and their socio-cultural origins and correlates,
using consumption and lifestyle measures for
40,000 US zip codes, and collaborates with
others internationally on related work. http://www.tnc-newsletter.blogspot.com
Jay
Coakley (jcoakley@uccs.edu ),
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
(Professor Emeritus), studies sociological
dimensions of sports, leisure, and popular
culture, and constantly revising the text, Sports
in Society: Issues and Controversies.
Nicki
Lisa Cole (nickilcole@umail.ucsb.edu),
University of California-Santa Barbara, studies
how knowledge, capitalism and commodities intersect
and is currently researching the industry of
fair trade and other coffees marketed as socially
responsible, and the popular knowledge that
surrounds consumption of this commodity.
Dan
Cook (dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu),
Rutgers University-Camden, studies children's
consumer culture (recently food) with particular
emphasis on the interaction between marketing
practice and discourse, the construction of
children as subjects through goods and consumption
and mothers' efforts to balance the two.
Julie
Cowgill (jcowgill@okcu.edu)
Oklahoma City University, examines the
ways in which magic and enchantment are produced,
negotiated and commodified in contemporary
consumer culture (with an emphasis on youth
culture).
Patrick Cox (ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu),
Rutgers University-Camden, interrogates ways in
which producers and markets of toys, activity books
and children's magazines prescribe—and children
subvert—identity formation through play.
Amanda
M. Czerniawski (amanda.czerniawski@temple.edu),
Temple University, follows the production process
within modeling agencies that begins with the
woman as she enters into plus-size modeling
and concludes with her transformation into
a product of idealized images.
Joshua
C. Davis (jcdavis@email.unc.edu),
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
studies how hip businesses in the 1970s provided
youth consumers with public spaces in which
they absorbed and articulated the legacies
of New-Left identity politics and counterculture. http://history.unc.edu/gradstudents/davis.html
Michaela
DeSoucey (michaeladesoucey@u.northwestern.edu),
Northwestern University, is interested in
consumption politics, controversies, and
movements, particularly around food, as they
connect social, cultural, and economic practices
in Western consumer societies.
Dominique
Desjeux (d.desjeux@argonautes.fr),
professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
at the Sorbonne, University of Paris 5, focuses
daily life consumptions in France, Europe,
Africa, China and the US focused on social
practices, material constraints and imaginary
(new technology of Communication, health,
energy, ordinary goods and services, food,
mobility, garbage).
Randal
Doane (Randal.Doane@oberlin.edu),
Oberlin College, uses Foucault's work on
governmentality and ethics to study urban
bicycle cooperatives, yet still maintains
his long-standing intellectual romance with
Bourdieu.
Paddy Dolan (paddy.dolan@dit.ie),
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, studies
the development of consumer culture, sport and
subjectivity in Ireland using the figurational
approach of Norbert Elias. www.dit.ie/paddydolan
Peter Doran (P.F.Doran@qub.ac.uk),
Lecturer, Sustainable Development School of Law,
Queens University Belfast, studies sustainable
consumption, consumerism, political economy,
mindfulness and askesis. www.qub.ac.uk
Heather
A. Downs (hdowns@uiuc.edu),
University of Illinois, studies women and
consumption with particular focus on leisure
activities.
E.
Melanie DuPuis (emdupuis@ucsc.edu),
UC Santa Cruz, studies the mutually-constitutive
relationships between the politics of production
and the politics of consumption in the United
States.
Rachel
Dwyer (dwyer.46@sociology.osu.edu),
Ohio State University, studies consumption
as a dimension of social inequality in the
US, with current projects focused on stratification
in housing markets, inequities in neighborhood
retail environments, and rising indebtedness
among young adults.
David
Ekerdt (dekerdt@ku.edu),
University of Kansas, studies aging and possessions,
focusing in particular on episodes of "household
disbandment," being the compass of activities
that people undertake to manage and dispose
of possessions when moving from larger to
smaller quarters in later life.
Fernando
Elichirigoity (elichi@uiuc.edu),
University of Illinois, studies the production
and consumption of financial and business
information and the construction of consumer
subjectivities through mobile communication
technologies.
Susan Falls (falls.susan@gmail.com or sfalls@scad.edu),
Savannah College of Art and Design, works at
the intersection of consumption, semiotics and
political economy, especially with regard to
transnational flows of elite goods.
Courtney Feldscher (cofeld@bu.edu),
Boston University, studies the real estate market
in terms of the social, economic, and cultural
meanings embedded in the concept of "home
ownership."
in particular, how homeowners' associations develop,
manage, and protect value.
Kirsten
Firminger (kfirminger@gmail.com),
The Graduate Center of the City University
of New York, researches individuals who have
voluntarily chosen to reduce their consumption
levels, including the process of learning
to reduce one's consumption of goods and
the impact of social context of one's reduced
consumption practices.
Robert Futrell (rfutrell@unlv.nevada.edu),
University of Nevada,Las Vegas,
studies sustainability in the Southwest U.S.,
environment and culture, social
movements, and white power culture.
Tally
Katz-Gerro (tkatz@soc.haifa.ac.il),
University of Haifa, Israel, studies cultural
consumption, omnivorousness, material consumption,
leisure, and time use with particular emphasis
on the way cultural participation and cultural
tastes are stratified in Western societies. http://www.esa-consumption.org
Luciana
de Araujo Gil (gillucia@msu.edu),
Michigan State University, (currently living
in Singapore), studies how teenagers in other
cultures (Brazil) perceive peer pressure,
social consumption motivation, self concept,
luxury brands and materialism, with particular
emphasis on cross-cultural consumer behavior.
Tarleton
Gillespie (tlg28@cornell.edu),
Cornell University, studies controversies
surrounding copyright and new technology,
with an eye for how legal disputes mask
the introduction of technologically-mediated
commercial arrangements, and help reify the
dichotomy between producer and consumer.
George
Gonos (gonosgc@potsdam.edu),
SUNY-Potsdam, studies temporary and migrant
workers as both commodities and consumers,
with specific focus on the fees they are
charged by commercial temporary help and
staffing agencies, and other labor brokers.
Myrna Goodman (myrna.goodman@sonoma.edu),
Sonoma State University, studies the interrelationships
between food, gender and society.
Laurel
Graham (lgraham@cas.usf.edu),
University of South Florida (Tampa), studies
consumption-related topics concerning: the
subjectivities of parents & children,
poverty survival, and environmental education
(especially school vegetable gardening).
Peter R. Grahame (prg11@psu.edu),
Pennsylvania State University Schuylkill, is
studying the construction of touristic spaces
and experiences in urban and rural settings.
Matt Gregory (gregoryma@mac.com),
Boston College, is studying the strategic uses
of consumerism by social movements to effect
change, maintain and create activist identity,
and for strategic mobilizations.
Michael
Haedicke (mhaedick@ucsd.edu),
University of California, San Diego, studies the
expansion and consolidation of the organic and natural
foods industry, with specific interest in how small,
independent businesses work to preserve a distinctive
character in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Karen
Bettez Halnon (kbh4@psu.edu),
Pennsylvania State University, studies transgressive
youth subcultures, heavy metal, 420,
the commodification of dissent, and popular
consumer culture, with particular foci on "Ghetto
Chic," "White Trash Chic," and "Redneck
and Blue Collar Chic" in her forthcoming
book, Poor Chic: Poverty Fads, Fashions,
and Media in Popular Consumer Culture (Worth
2009).
Eugene
Halton (ehalton@nd.edu),
University of Notre Dame, writes on contemporary
materialism as brain suck, possessions and
home life, consumption as socialization, objects
and animism, and the things that things say.
Amy
Hanser (hanser@interchange.ubc.ca),
University of British Columbia, has conducted
research on China's emerging service sector
and consumer culture, and her future research
will continue to explore the implications of
an emerging consumer culture for structures
of inequality in urban China.
Kai-Uwe
Hellmann (hellmann@markeninstitut.de),
Technical University Berlin, Institute of Sociology,
Germany, focuses on the consumption of brands
and the culture of consumption and is co-founder
of the working group “AG
Konsumsoziologie.”
Jennifer
R. Hemler (jhemler@sociology.rutgers.edu),
Rutgers University, studies meaning making
through aberrant social practices such
as compulsive buying.
Trent Hennessey (t.hennessey@mbs.edu),
Melbourne Business School, studies people engaged
in self-marketing and personal branding to examine
self commodification and the consumption of identity.
Mary
Elizabeth Hughes (mehughes@soc.duke.edu),
Duke University, is currently investigating
the impact of material aspirations on the timing
of marriage with a focus on homeownership and
writing a
"thought piece" about integrating consumption
into life course studies.
Eva
Illouz (illouz@mscc.huji.ac.il),
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studies the
intersection of consumption and emotions
and the construction of consumer imagination.
Laknath Jayasinghe (l.jayasinghe@mbs.edu),
Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne.
Laknath is currently completing his doctoral research,
which is an ethnography of the viewing practices
of television advertising audiences in the family
home.
Julian Jefferies (jefferij@bc.edu),
Boston College, studies the daily life practices
of recently-arrived immigrant youth, with particular
emphasis on what consumption practices reveal about
transnational identity formation and negotiation
of capital.
Art Jipson (jipsonaj@udayton.edu)
University of Dayton Director of the Criminal Justice
Studies Program Studies extremism, racism,
deviance, social movements, popular music industry,
commemoration and roadside memorials, Internet
community, social media, white collar crime and
fraud prevention, and the perception of police
television programs.
http://academic.udayton.edu/arthurjipson
Brett Johnson (johnbr02@luther.edu),
Luther College, studies the voluntary simplicity
movement and the broader discourse on "living simply" in
U.S. society, along with other "lifestyle
movements" that advocate lifestyle action
as tactic of creating social change. www.betterworldhandbook.com.
Josée
Johnston (josee.johnston@utoronto.ca),
University of Toronto, studies the sociology
of food and ethical consumption, with a particular
focus on the intersection of social movement
projects and corporate discourse.
Nathan Jurgenson (njurgenson@socy.umd.edu),
University of Maryland, is researching the theoretical
possibilities provided by Web 2.0 in areas such
as knowledge production, the presentation of self,
consumption, authority, exploitation and so many
others.
Wendi Belinda Kane (wkane@mail.ucf.edu ),
University of Central Florida graduate student,
is interested in the overlap of consumer power,
social movements, and economic and environmental
exploitation.
Meredith Katz (mekatz@vt.edu),
Virginia Tech, studies cultural consumption and
mass consumerism with a focus on consumption as
an alternative form of political engagement and
social action.
Kerwin Kaye (kab316@nyu.edu),
New York University, is currently examining ideas
concerning drug addiction and their relationship
to larger ideologies of consumption.
Volker
Kirchberg (kirchberg@uni.leuphana.de)
Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany. Focus
on the consumption of culture and the culture
of consumption, especially at arts spaces and
places between public and private designations
(museums, galleries, performing arts centers).
Linda
J. Kim (l.kim@yahoo.com),
University of California-Riverside, is undertaking
a dissertation which utilizes a critical media,
feminist, and race analysis on the HBO
series, Sex and the City.
Robert E. Kleine, III (r-kleine@onu.edu),
Ohio Northern University, studies the interplay
of consumption and identity development in the
context of transformational value offerings. http://www2.onu.edu/~r-kleine/research/kleine-research.html
Mikael Klintman (mikael.klintman@fpi.lu.se),
Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden,
studies preconditions for green, political and
ethical consumerism, by examining consumers as
well as policy instruments, such as labels and
standards, aimed at facilitating a more broad-minded
consumerism.
URL: http://www.fpi.lu.se/en/klintman
Shelley
Koch (slkoch@mail.ku.edu)
University of Kansas, studies consumption as
work, specifically women's work in food shopping.
Marina Kogan (kogan3@illinois.edu),
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD
student, is interested in home organizing (organization
of domestic space) as a technique of government
and mechanism of creation of 'better' consumer-citizens.
Cliff Laine (c.laine@lancaster.ac.uk),
is a postgraduate at Lancaster University
looking at ways audiences understand their participation
in contemporary classical music, using, amongst
other things, the work of Bernard Lahire on cultural
dissonance and the sociology of the individual. http://lancs.academia.edu/CliffLaine
Simon
Langlois (simon.langlois@soc.ulaval.ca),
Université Laval (Québec), studies
family budgets in historical perspective and
ways of living in contemporary consumer society.
Lauren
Langman (llangma@luc.edu ),
Loyola University, Chicago, studies transgressive
consumption (i.e., Carnival), body modification
and consumer spaces.
Leora
Lawton (lawton@techsociety.com)
is a lecturer in sociology at the University
of California, Berkeley, and president of a
consulting company providing design and analysis
of custom consumer and social science research,
often working with the ‘dark side.’
Yu
Ying Lee (yylee@fcu.edu.tw),
Fengchia University, studies visual culture
and the formation of Taiwanese consumer culture,
recently focusing on the areas of collection
and consumption with particular emphasis on
Chinese jade consumption.
Christian
Licoppe (licoppe@enst.fr),
Ecole Nationale des Telecommunications, France,
studies buying and selling at a distance, such
as activity studies in call centres and ecommerce.
Lissette
Aliaga Linares (lissette@prc.utexas.edu),
University of Texas, uses a recent survey conducted
during fieldwork to study the impact of supermarkets
spatial positioning in street markets customers
comparing low income neighborhoods in Lima
and Santiago de Chile.
Carol
Lindquist (cslindquist@msn.com),
Stony Brook University, heads up the Household
Meals Project which examines the division of
food-related labor in households, including
shopping for groceries to understand domestic
political processes and balance of power among
household members.
Linda
Lobao (Lobao.1@osu.edu),
The Ohio State University, is studying public
perceptions about food consumption with a focus
on humane treatment of farm animals.
Janet
A. Lorenzen (jlorenzen@sociology.rutgers.edu),
Rutgers University, studies consumerism, globalization,
and inequality with a particular emphasis
on temporality within American consumer culture
and the historical construction of consumerism
as a social problem.
Paolo
Magaudda (paolo.magaudda@unipd.it)
University of Padova, Italy, studies the processes
of consumption of technologies and artefacts
in the everyday life, with particular reference
to music consumption and to leisure-based and
home-based technologies.
Jennifer Smith Maguire (jbs7@le.ac.uk),
University of Leicester (UK), studies the cultural
economy of consumption through a range of empirical
research areas, including: the interconnections
of media, sites, producers and consumers in the
commercial fitness field; the role of cultural
intermediaries in the creation of value for wine
markets; and the construction of aesthetic expertise
by interior designers. http://www.le.ac.uk/mc/staff/jbs7.html
Robert
D. Manning (rmanning@saunders.rit.edu),
Director of Center for Consumer Financial Services
(CCFS), Rochester Institute of Technology,
examines consumer credit, debt and consumption
trends over the life-course with particular
attention to the political economy of deregulated
consumer financial services, college students
and credit card debt, history of US saving
and debt, popular culture and debt, credit
card industry, debt relief programs, international
consumer debt trends, and Wal-Mart's rise as
a global financial services provider. www.creditcardnation.com
Jan Marontate (jan.marontate@acadiau.ca),
Canada Research Chair in Technology and Culture
at Acadia University (Wolfville, Canada) is currently
studying new computer-based creative practices
in the arts and digital imaging in laboratory sciences
focusing the place of interdisciplinary collaborations
in innovation and the implications the use of new
media for culture heritage preservation.
Heather E Marsh (hmarsh@socy.umd.edu),
University of Maryland-College Park, studies consumption
as it applies to sites that generate, foster and
support narratives of community and/or community
dissension particularly in the way that consumers
critically read franchises, products and related
media through their habitus and yet, at the same
time, create communities around field distinction.
Lydia
Martens (l.d.martens@appsoc.keele.ac.uk),
Keele University, researches on consumption
in domestic life, with diverse interests around
mundane domestic practices and routines, kitchen
life, gender, adult-child cultures, and late
modernity.
Rebekah
Peeples Massengill (rmasseng@princeton.edu),
Princeton University, studies discourse about
Wal-Mart (particularly moral claims for and
against the retailer) along with various dimensions
of employment in retail and service work.
Cyndi Maurer (cmaurer@camden.rutgers.edu),
Rutgers University-Camden, studies the relationship
between media (television particular) and children/
teenage culture.
Robert
Mayer (robert.mayer@fcs.utah.edu),
University of Utah, is studying the ways in
which consumers are adjusting their retirement
planning in response to the current economic
meltdown.
E. Doyle McCarthy (mccarthy@fordham.edu),
Fordham University, is writing a book about U.S.
culture today, how consumer culture and mass media
foster new "feeling rules" and highly
emotional cultural practices, including spectator
sports, memorializing, new forms of art, leisure,
and mass entertainment.
Laura
McCloud (mccloud.34@sociology.osu.edu),
The Ohio State University, studies debt and
credit, focusing specifically on the impact
growing class inequality and increased credit
use have on one another.
Bill
McCready (bmccready@knowledgenetworks.com),
Knowledge Networks, Inc., provides information,
cost estimates and design assistance about
the ways our national online household probability
panel (the only one in existence) called KnowledgePanel
SM that includes 38,000+ households and over
2,500 background variables on 50,000+ panelists
over the age of 13 can be used by academic
researchers to study consumer behaviors, decisions
and attitudes.
Micki McGee (mmcgee@fordham.edu),
Fordham University, NY, investigates the cultural
economies of consumption by studying an array of
research areas, including: the rise of American
self-help and makeover culture; the rhetorics of
creativity and innovation that drive the "cultural
creatives"; and the quest for normative parenting
that haunts the personal narratives of parents
of children on the autism spectrum.
Wm.
Alex McIntosh (w-mcintosh@neo.tamu.edu),
Texas A&M University presently studies
how children and parents spend time and how
this affects their consumption of food at home
and food away from home.
Colin McNulty (cmcnul1@gmail.com),
Loyola University Chicago, studies sites of consumption
and themed environments, relationship between consumption
and globalization, epistemology in advertising,
and theory.
Laura
Miller (lamiller@brandeis.edu),
Brandeis University, is working on a project
that examines the relationship between the
health/natural foods industry and natural foods
as a social movement.
Chandra Mukerji is
interested in both the historical development of
consumer culture in the 17th and 18th centuries,
and the representation of consumption in contemporary
mass media.
Magali
Muria (mmuria@weber.ucsd.edu),
University of California-San Diego, studies
geographies of consumption at the U.S.-Mexico
border, particularly how increased restrictions
of movement at the border are rearranging consumption habits
among its residents and rearranging identities,
patterns of connectivity and the production
of space.
Susan
Munkres (susan.munkres@furman.edu),
Furman University, examines the sustainable
agriculture movement, both on divisions within
the movement over organic certification, and
on the conflict between the "local" and "organic" frames.
Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy (wwiedenhoft@mirapoint.jcu.ed),
John Carroll University, studies the politics of
consumption and the relationship between tourism
and conflict transformation.
Joel Nelson (nelso004@umn.edu),
University of Minnesota, is interested in the market
economy—most recently in how privatization
alters public services and introduces new varieties
of capitalism.
Michele
Ollivier (ollivier@uottawa.ca),
University of Ottawa, is interested in tastes
and cultural practices focusing primarily on
the various uses of the rhetoric of cultural
diversity in the social sciences and in everyday
life, especially in relation to arts consumption.
Angela Orend (angela.orend@louisville.edu),
University of Louisville, focuses on issues of
commodification with respect to the body and popular
culture with a special emphasis on corporate logo
tattoos as a form of postmodern consumption.
Per Østergaard (poe@sam.sdu.dk),
University of Southern Denmark, studies consumer
culture focusing on how brands are used for identity
construction, consumption rituals and how to understand
branding in a glocalized world using poststructuralist
perspectives and qualitative research methodologies. http://www.sam.sdu.dk/staff/poe
Lynn
Owens (lowens@wesleyan.edu),
Wesleyan University, examines the intersections
and interactions between tourism and social
activism, with an eye towards how these two
combine to both produce and consume place.
Johanna Pabst (pabstjo@bc.edu),
Boston College, studies technology consumption and
relationships, focusing on low-income youth and their
productive/consumptive relationships with technology
products and information technology.
Krista
Paulsen (kpaulsen@unf.edu),
University of North Florida, is currently studying
residential real estate marketing and sales practices,
with an eye to how representations of home and
community may perpetuate segregation in terms of
race, class, age, and family status.
Jan Phillips (janannep@usm.maine.edu),
University of Southern Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College,
is currently researching the ways we accomplish or
enact family through the routine, recurring work of
consumption, with particular interest in toy and grocery
consumption.
Lubomir Popov (lspopov@bgsu.edu),
Bowling Green State University, studies consumers/users
of built environments and their culture with the purpose
to introduce this dimension in planning and programming;
he works mostly with qualitative methodologies.
Jason Pridmore (J.H.Pridmore@hszuyd.nl),
Zuyd University, The Netherlands, examines the digitization
of consumption practices in everyday life as forms
of consumer surveillance that both shape consumption
and personal identity. http://digideas.nl
Melvin Prince (princem1@southernct.edu),
Southern Connecticut State University, studies dyads,
money attitudes, dyadic adjustment and client-agency
relations.
Allison Pugh (apugh@virginia.edu),
University of Virginia, studies culture, families and
inequality, and has just finished a book entitled Longing
and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture (California), in
which she investigates how children's peer cultures
shape the meaning of popular goods and experiences
so that affluent and low-income parents alike feel
compelled to provide them.
Norene Pupo (npupo@yorku.ca), York
University, studies commodication/decommodification
of household work and the relationship between consumption
and service sector work.
Chiara
Rabbiosi (c.rabbiosi@campus.unimib.it),
University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy), is working
on PhD research on the “experience” of
shopping in specific retail spaces such as factory
outlet villages.
Robert
Rattle (robert14robert@yahoo.ca),
Independent Researcher/Consultant, studies and
consults on various aspects of sustainable consumption
with an emphasis on the social determinants of
health, focusing on the institutional and societal
mechanisms of consumption behaviour. http://www.ncf.ca/~at758
Julie
Raulli (jraulli@wilson.edu),
Wilson College, studies resale consumption, the
destigmatization of used goods in U.S. society,
and the social, political and economic implications
of resale consumption in the context of increased
economic inequality in the United States.
Sharon Raz (razsharon.raz@gmail.com)
University of Haifa & University of Washington,
studies the association between consumption patterns
and social stratification in the Israeli society.
David
Redmon (dwredmon@yahoo.com)
utilizes visual sociology that links the connections
between labor, consumption, and local carnival
economies. www.mardigrasmadeinchina.com
Renee Ann Richardson (rrichardson@hbs.edu),
Harvard Business School, studies consumer behavior
and social boundaries, with particular emphasis on
luxury consumption, brand communities, and consumer
deviance (especially counterfeit consumption).
George
Ritzer (Ritzer@socy.umd.edu),
University of Maryland, applies social theory
to the everyday realms of the economy and consumption.
James
Roebuck (roebuck@ag.arizona.edu),
University of Arizona, studies the sociology of
sound, with an emphasis on how class-based cultural
preferences relate to the socioacoustic properties
of musical genres.
Dave
Roelfs (droelfs@notes.cc.sunysb.edu),
SUNY-Stony Brook, is a fourth-year graduate student
interested in status-consumption, voluntary-simplicity,
and retail organizations, particularly in the relationship
of status-consumption with both the siting of 1950's-era
malls and the later phenomenon of dead malls.
Joe Rumbo (rumbojd@jmu.edu),
Assistant Professor of Sociology, James Madison University.
is interested in marketing and advertising, consumerism,
critical theory, cultural studies, identity, gender,
and anti-consumerist socioeconomic and cultural formations.
Markella Rutherford (mrutherf@wellesley.edu),
Wellesley College, studies culture and families, and
is working on a book that examines the ways that popular
parenting magazines depict parents' and children's
autonomy.
J.
Michael Ryan (mryan@socy.umd.edu),
University of Maryland-College Park, studies McDonaldization,
the social geographies of consumption, and the
relationship between consumption and globalization.
Roger Salerno (rsalerno@pace.edu)
Pace University, studies the psychoanalytic
dimensions of consumption.
Marc
Sanford (mmsanfor@uchicago.edu),
University of Chicago, researches consumption
as a measure of neighborhood homogeneity using
grocery store scanner data.
Ethan Schoolman (edavsch@umich.edu),
University of Michigan, is a graduate student in
sociology working at the intersection of political
consumption and sustainability issues.
Juliet
Schor (juliet.schor@bc.edu),
Boston College, has focused on issues pertaining
to trends in work and leisure, consumerism,
the relationship between work and family, women's
issues and economic justice over the last ten
years.
Jim Schwartz (schwji@consumer.org),
Consumers Union, conducts marketing and social
research about consumer products and services,
media usage and consumer rights. www.ConsumerReports.org
William Sewell (wsewell@uchicago.edu),
University of Chicago, is working on early consumer
capitalism and its effects on social relations,
culture, and politics in eighteenth century France.
Olga Shevchenko (oshevche@williams.edu),
Williams College, has written on the leisure industry
and domestic consumption in postsocialist Russia,
and is currently interested in the issues of modernity,
urbanism and consumption during late socialism,
and in their relevance for the consumer discourses
in today’s Russia.
Bas Spierings (B.Spierings@geo.uu.nl),
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, studies the
interplay of imaginations of consumerism, governance
of consumption spaces and everyday life in the
public domain. http://www.geo.uu.nl/urban/spierings
Srinivas
Sridharan (ssridhar@uwo.ca),
The University of Western Ontario, studies
consumption and entrepreneurship practices,
rituals, and values among individuals living
at subsistence-level incomes, and draws inferences
for marketing practices by public and private
organizations that endeavor to serve this segment
with products and services with an ability
to ensure social, economic, and environmental
sustainability.
Lakshmi Srinivas (Lakshmi.srinivas@umb.edu),
The University of Massachusetts-Boston, works on
film reception and movie-going, ethnographic research
methods, culture and consumption, the sociology
of everyday life, popular culture and public life,
media globalization and Indian cinema including
Bollywood.
Karen
Sternheimer (sternhei@usc.edu),
University of Southern California, is currently
researching celebrity culture and consumption,
and has also studied anxieties surrounding
children, teens, and consumption.
Joel
Stillerman (stillejo@gvsu.edu),
Grand Valley State University, conducts ethnographic
research on consumption in Santiago, Chile
with specific reference to embedded retail
transactions and the public character of shopping
areas as well as the variations in consumption
practices among middle class consumers across
gender, occupational and age groups.
Jiaming
Sun (Jiaming_sun@tamu-commerce.edu),
Texas A&M University-Commerce, studies
globalization, modern China, consumer culture
with particular focus on how global connectivity
impacted on local residential consumption behaviors
and value orientations, and their difference
among people with different age, gender, educations,
residential areas and global connections.
Anna
Tikhomirova (atikhomi@yandex.ru),
University of Bielefeld, Germany, studies fashion
and clothes consumption of "women of
intelligentsia" in the GDR and the Soviet
Union in comparison, in the 1960s - 1980s,
with particular emphasis on the mechanisms
of "distinctions" in the late state-socialist
societies with their politics of levellings.
Giselle Touzard (giselle@unlv.nevada.edu),
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, studies the sociology
of media and globalization, and conducts content
analysis of advertisements’ themes, implications,
and effects.
Keila Tyner (ktyner@txstate.edu),
Texas State University-San Marcos, studies the
consumption of fashion, appearance, and body-related
products and services and how these consumption
choices shape sense of self and identity.
Zsuzsanna
Vargha (zv2003@columbia.edu),
Columbia University, is writing her dissertation
on how salespeople and "technologies
of persuasion" cooperate to produce markets
in banking, comparing the use of simple sales
scripts with the use of the software Customer
Relationship Management (CRM), both aimed to
personalize mass financial products during
interactions between bank representatives and
customers. www.columbia.edu/~zv2003/
Thomas
Volscho (thomas.volscho@uconn.edu),
University of Connecticut, studies radical
political economy and is working on a Neo-Marxist
theory of consumer society that emphasizes
the dialectics of interests between workers
and consumers.
Faye
Linda Wachs (flwachs@csupomona.edu),
Cal Poly Pomona, studies the body in consumer
culture and recently began exploring the
relationship between electoral politics and
consumer culture.
Melanie
Wallendorf (mwallendorf@eller.arizona.edu),
University of Arizona, is currently fascinated
by the ways people change social structures
drawing from consumption as a toolkit, particularly
by constructing new ideologies through close
conversation with similarly situated others,
by modifying traditions to serve their new
purposes, and by questioning their everyday
practices in the company of others.
Jeff
Wang (jeffwang@cityu.edu.hk),
City University of Hong Kong, studies consumption
behavior in China and current works on topics
such as online gaming, Feng Shui, group purchase,
and Chinese medicine.
Randi Wærdahl (randi.wardahl@sosgeo.uio.no)
University of Oslo, Norway. Studies the effects
that globalization, commercialization and rapid
social and economical change has on childhood,
children and families in urban China. http://www.iss.uio.no/instituttet/ansatte/randiw-eng.xml
Diane Watts-Roy (diane@wattsroy.com),
Boston College, studies the intersection between
consumer culture and aging, with a focus on the
use of human enhancement technologies and practices
which are associated with extending the lifespan
and/or delaying bodily aging.
Michelle
Weinberger (m-weinberger@northwestern.edu),
Northwestern University (Medill School) examines
how consumers create, accumulate, and deploy
cultural knowledge through consumption practices
and the role of the marketplace in that dynamic
process.
http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/faculty/imcfulltime.aspx?id=135709
Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb (amelia@bgu.ac.il),
Postdoctoral Fellow at Blaustein Institute for
Desert Research, Ben Gurion University (Israel),
is a cultural anthropologist who studies the links
between citizenship and consumption, particularly
in Cuba and Costa Rica, and, most recently, in
Israel's Negev Desert.
Lois
West (westl@fiu.edu),
Florida International University, is
researching kids and their experience in Wannado
City (in Florida), the first role-playing theme
park in the U.S.
Frederick
Wherry (ffwherry@umich.edu),
University of Michigan, conducts qualitative/comparative
field studies in international (Thailand
and Costa Rica) and domestic (Philadelphia)
settings to investigate how the demand for
goods and the opportunities for market participation
depend on social processes.
Elizabeth Wissinger (ewissinger@bmcc.cuny.edu ,
BMCC/CUNY, studies the fashion modeling industry
and the images it creates not only as a means to
understanding relations between power structures
and consumerism, but also as a barometer of changing
notions of personhood.
Michael J. Yaksich (myaksich@hra.com)
Honda R & D Americas, Inc.
Sharon Zukin (szukin@gc.cuny.edu),
Brooklyn College and City University of New York
Graduate Center, writes about cities, shopping,
and consumer culture, focusing of different types
of shopping experience from chain stores and branded
stores to new boutiques and cafes.
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