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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member's name.
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Last updated
October 20, 2010
*Linden Dalecki (ldalecki@pittstate.edu),
Kelce College of Business at Pittsburg State University,
teaches and researches management and marketing
in the entertainment industry, with a particular
focus on Hollywood and Hip-Hop.
*Mary Lynn
Damhorst (mldmhrst@iastate.edu),
Iowa State University, studies the body as a site
of consumption, including fashion, appearance,
dress, and body-related products; with emphasis
on identity, body image, attitudes toward obesity,
and stereotyping.
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 (desoucey@princeton.edu),
postdoctoral fellow in Sociology and the Center
for the Study of Social Organization at Princeton
University, is interested in consumption politics,
controversies, and consumer oriented movements,
particularly around food, in the U.S. and Europe.
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),
Queens University Belfast, studies the contribution
of askesis (‘care of the self’ through
physical and mental exercises e.g. meditation)
to resilience in the context of societies in transition
to low-carbon/-impact lifestyles, specifically
individual/community resistance to consumerism
as a form of biopolitics, withg a special
interest in the convergence of discourses on sustainable
consumption, welfare and challenges to ‘economic
growth’.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.
*Liz Edgecomb (eedgecom@usf.edu),
University of South Florida, studies consumer identity
(recently poor, urban, minority, tweens) with an
emphasis on the ways individuals understand their
consumption in relation to close others such as
family and friends.
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 (sfalls@scad.edu),
Savannah College of Art and Design, examines transnational
commodity chains of luxury goods such as diamonds,
ikat silk, and fine art.
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
topics concerning: sustainable consumption,
parents & children as consumers, 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.
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