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
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Last updated
October 8, 2009
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.
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