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 8, 2009
Johanna
Pabst (pabstjo@bc.edu),
Boston College, studies technology consumption
and relationships, focusing on low-income youth
and their productive/consumptive relationships
with technology products and information technology.
Krista
Paulsen (kpaulsen@unf.edu),
University of North Florida, is currently studying
residential real estate marketing and sales
practices, with an eye to how representations
of home and community may perpetuate segregation
in terms of race, class, age, and family status.
Jan Phillips (janannep@usm.maine.edu),
University of Southern Maine's Lewiston-Auburn
College, is currently researching the ways we accomplish
or enact family through the routine, recurring
work of consumption, with particular interest in
toy and grocery consumption.
Lubomir Popov (lspopov@bgsu.edu),
Bowling Green State University, studies consumers/users
of built environments and their culture with the
purpose to introduce this dimension in planning
and programming; he works mostly with qualitative
methodologies.
Jason Pridmore (J.H.Pridmore@hszuyd.nl),
Zuyd University, The Netherlands, examines the
digitization of consumption practices in everyday
life as forms of consumer surveillance that both
shape consumption and personal identity. http://digideas.nl
Melvin Prince (princem1@southernct.edu),
Southern Connecticut State University, studies
dyads, money attitudes, dyadic adjustment and client-agency
relations.
Allison Pugh (apugh@virginia.edu),
University of Virginia, studies culture, families
and inequality, and has just finished a book entitled Longing
and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture (California), in
which she investigates how children's peer cultures
shape the meaning of popular goods and experiences
so that affluent and low-income parents alike feel
compelled to provide them.
Norene Pupo (npupo@yorku.ca), York
University, studies commodication/decommodification
of household work and the relationship between
consumption and service sector work.
Chiara Rabbiosi (c.rabbiosi@campus.unimib.it),
University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy), is working
on PhD research on the “experience” of
shopping in specific retail spaces such as factory
outlet villages.
Robert
Rattle (robert14robert@yahoo.ca),
Independent Researcher/Consultant, studies
and consults on various aspects of sustainable
consumption with an emphasis on the social
determinants of health, focusing on the institutional
and societal mechanisms of consumption behaviour. http://www.ncf.ca/~at758
Julie
Raulli (jraulli@wilson.edu),
Wilson College, studies resale consumption,
the destigmatization of used goods in U.S.
society, and the social, political and economic
implications of resale consumption in the context
of increased economic inequality in the United
States.
Sharon Raz (razsharon.raz@gmail.com)
University of Haifa & University of Washington,
studies the association between consumption patterns
and social stratification in the Israeli society.
David
Redmon (dwredmon@yahoo.com)
utilizes visual sociology that links the connections
between labor, consumption, and local carnival
economies. www.mardigrasmadeinchina.com
Renee Ann Richardson (rrichardson@hbs.edu),
Harvard Business School, studies consumer behavior
and social boundaries, with particular emphasis
on luxury consumption, brand communities, and consumer
deviance (especially counterfeit consumption).
George
Ritzer (Ritzer@socy.umd.edu),
University of Maryland, applies social
theory to the everyday realms of the economy
and consumption.
James
Roebuck (roebuck@ag.arizona.edu),
University of Arizona, studies the sociology
of sound, with an emphasis on how class-based
cultural preferences relate to the socioacoustic
properties of musical genres.
Dave
Roelfs (droelfs@notes.cc.sunysb.edu),
SUNY-Stony Brook, is a fourth-year graduate
student interested in status-consumption, voluntary-simplicity,
and retail organizations, particularly in the
relationship of status-consumption with both
the siting of 1950's-era malls and the later
phenomenon of dead malls.
Joe Rumbo (rumbojd@jmu.edu),
Assistant Professor of Sociology, James Madison
University. is interested in marketing and advertising,
consumerism, critical theory, cultural studies,
identity, gender, and anti-consumerist socioeconomic
and cultural formations.
Markella
Rutherford (mrutherf@wellesley.edu),
Wellesley College, studies culture and families,
and is working on a book that examines the ways
that popular parenting magazines depict parents'
and children's autonomy.
J.
Michael Ryan (mryan@socy.umd.edu),
University of Maryland-College Park, studies
McDonaldization, the social geographies of
consumption, and the relationship between consumption
and globalization.
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