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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. This feature is available by clicking on the 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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