Members' List
with Areas of Interest
The Consumer Studies Research
Network (CSRN) has
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Last updated
October 8, 2009
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.
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