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
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.
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