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
Roger Salerno (rsalerno@pace.edu)
Pace University, studies the psychoanalytic
dimensions of consumption.
Marc
Sanford (mmsanfor@uchicago.edu),
University of Chicago, researches consumption
as a measure of neighborhood homogeneity using
grocery store scanner data.
Ethan
Schoolman (edavsch@umich.edu),
University of Michigan, is a graduate student
in sociology working at the intersection of political
consumption and sustainability issues.
Juliet
Schor (juliet.schor@bc.edu),
Boston College, has focused on issues pertaining
to trends in work and leisure, consumerism,
the relationship between work and family, women's
issues and economic justice over the last ten
years.
Jim Schwartz (schwji@consumer.org),
Consumers Union, conducts marketing and social
research about consumer products and services,
media usage and consumer rights. www.ConsumerReports.org
William Sewell (wsewell@uchicago.edu),
University of Chicago, is working on early consumer
capitalism and its effects on social relations,
culture, and politics in eighteenth century France.
Olga Shevchenko (oshevche@williams.edu),
Williams College, has written on the leisure industry
and domestic consumption in postsocialist Russia,
and is currently interested in the issues of modernity,
urbanism and consumption during late socialism,
and in their relevance for the consumer discourses
in today’s Russia.
Bas Spierings (B.Spierings@geo.uu.nl),
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, studies
the interplay of imaginations of consumerism,
governance of consumption spaces and everyday
life in the public domain. http://www.geo.uu.nl/urban/spierings
Srinivas
Sridharan (ssridhar@uwo.ca),
The University of Western Ontario, studies
consumption and entrepreneurship practices,
rituals, and values among individuals living
at subsistence-level incomes, and draws inferences
for marketing practices by public and private
organizations that endeavor to serve this segment
with products and services with an ability
to ensure social, economic, and environmental
sustainability.
Lakshmi Srinivas (Lakshmi.srinivas@umb.edu),
The University of Massachusetts-Boston, works on
film reception and movie-going, ethnographic research
methods, culture and consumption, the sociology
of everyday life, popular culture and public life,
media globalization and Indian cinema including
Bollywood.
Karen
Sternheimer (sternhei@usc.edu),
University of Southern California, is currently
researching celebrity culture and consumption,
and has also studied anxieties surrounding
children, teens, and consumption.
Joel
Stillerman (stillejo@gvsu.edu),
Grand Valley State University, conducts ethnographic
research on consumption in Santiago, Chile
with specific reference to embedded retail
transactions and the public character of shopping
areas as well as the variations in consumption
practices among middle class consumers across
gender, occupational and age groups.
Jiaming
Sun (Jiaming_sun@tamu-commerce.edu),
Texas A&M University-Commerce, studies globalization,
modern China, consumer culture with particular
focus on how global connectivity impacted on
local residential consumption behaviors and value
orientations, and their difference among people
with different age, gender, educations, residential
areas and global connections.
Anna
Tikhomirova (atikhomi@yandex.ru),
University of Bielefeld, Germany, studies fashion
and clothes consumption of "women of
intelligentsia" in the GDR and the Soviet
Union in comparison, in the 1960s - 1980s,
with particular emphasis on the mechanisms
of "distinctions" in the late state-socialist
societies with their politics of levellings.
Giselle Touzard (giselle@unlv.nevada.edu),
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, studies the
sociology of media and globalization, and conducts
content analysis of advertisements’ themes,
implications, and effects.
Keila Tyner (ktyner@txstate.edu),
Texas State University-San Marcos, studies the
consumption of fashion, appearance, and body-related
products and services and how these consumption
choices shape sense of self and identity.
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