Members' List
with Areas of Interest
The Consumer Studies Research
Network (CSRN) has
now grown to over 400 members. For members
who want to be listed publicly we provide
the contact information and short description
of research interests. We also linked personal
or institutional home pages or other websites
(if available) to the individual member's profile.
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Last updated
October 8, 2009
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.
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