Consumers & Consumption

Members Directory

The purpose of this web page is to learn more about our members and to contact them. If you would like to be listed on the ASA Consumers and Consumption website, please email Carla at carlaalexa1193@gmail.com

Christopher Andrews

  • Affiliation: Drew University, Department of Sociology
  • Research interests: self-service, technology, consumption and consumer culture, and work
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Nino Bariola

  • Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
  • Research interests: Food, Nationalism, Inequality, Work, Corruption, Taboo markets
  • Academic Position: Graduate Student
  • Twitter Handle: @nbariola

Shyon Baumann

  • Affiliation: University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
  • Research interests: food, ethical consumption, cultural capital, cultural evaluation, aesthetics
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Kaitland Byrd

  • Affiliation: Virginia Tech, Sociology
  • Research interests: Food, cultural capital, inequality, place
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Maria A Cabrera Arus

  • Affiliation: New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
  • Research interests: fashion, material culture, socialism
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @cubamaterial

Kate Cairns

  • Affiliation: Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Childhood Studies
  • Research interests: childhood/youth; food; mothering; education; inequality
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @katefcairns

Yasemin Besen Cassino

  • Affiliation: Montclair State University, Sociology
  • Research interests: work, gender, youth, aesthetic labor
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @Besencassino

Nathaniel G. Chapman

  • Affiliation: Arkansas Tech University, Behavioral Sciences
  • Research interests: Craft Beer, Popular Culture, Consumption, Race, Gender
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Yung-Ying Chang

  • Affiliation: Rutgers University, Department of Sociology
  • Research interests: consumer culture, consumer activism, popular culture
  • Academic Position: PhD Student

Cassi Pittman Claytor

  • Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Department of sociology
  • Research interests: Race and the marketplace, African American consumers
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @doctahPittman

Joseph Cohen

  • Affiliation: City University of New York – Queens College, Sociology
  • Research interests: Household Finance, Consumer Spending, Social Policy, Wellbeing
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @jncohen

Sarah Corse

  • Affiliation: University of Virginia, Sociology
  • Research interests: arts, literature, reception, class and culture
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Michaela DeSoucey

  • Affiliation: North Carolina State University, Sociology
  • Research interests: food, risk, heritage, culture, organizations
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Megan Doherty Bea

  • Affiliation: Cornell University
  • Research interests: Consumer Finance & Well-Being
  • Academic Position: PhD Candidate, Sociology
  • Twitter Handle: @MegB_86

David Ekerdt

  • Affiliation: University of Kansas, Sociology
  • Research interests: life course, material convoy, downsizing
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Yang Gao

  • Affiliation: Furman University, Sociology
  • Research interests: Identity; Cultural Consumption; Media Studies
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @YangGao11

Jennifer Givens

  • Affiliation: Utah State University, Sociology
  • Research interests: environmental concern and behavior, international trade, globalization
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @jennifergivens6

Kjerstin Gruys

  • Affiliation: University of Nevada, Reno
  • Research interests: gender, aesthetic labor, beauty and appearance, fashion industry, work
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @kjerstingruys

Deborah A. Harris

  • Affiliation: Texas State University
  • Research interests: sociology of food, qualitative methods, gender inequality
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @Taking_the_Heat

Sydney Hart

  • Affiliation: Wilbur Wright College
  • Research interests: material culture, memory
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Marahrens, Helge-Johannes

  • Affiliation: Indiana University
  • Research interests: omnivorousness, distinction, computational social science
  • Academic Position: Student

John Holley

  • Affiliation: Suffolk University, Sociology
  • Research interests: youth, relationships, culture
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @thesociologist

Audrey Holm

  • Affiliation: Boston University Questrom School of Business, Organizational Behavior
  • Research interests: economic sociology, work and occupations, culture
  • Academic Position: PhD Student
  • Webpage URL: https://www.bu.edu/questrom/profile/audrey-holm
  • Twitter Handle: @Audrey_HOLM

Alexander Hoppe

  • Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Sociology
  • Research interests: fashion, global value chains, organizations
  • Academic Position: PhD Student

Emily Huddart Kennedy

  • Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Sociology
  • Research interests: sustainable consumption, food, gender, and social class
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @HuddartEmily
Aimee Huff
  • Affiliation: Oregon State University, College of Business
  • Research interests: consumer culture, gun culture, legitimacy, myth
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @aimeehuff

Josée Johnston

  • Affiliation: University of Toronto
  • Research interests: food; gender; ethical consumption
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Jennifer Jordan

  • Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sociology
  • Research interests: culture, urban, food, beer, place
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @ediblememory

Yuki Kato

  • Affiliation: Georgetown University, Department of Sociology
  • Research interests: Urban Sociology, Food Justice, Environmental Justice, Culture and Consumption
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Ken Kolb

  • Affiliation: Furman University, Sociology Dept.
  • Research interests: food deserts, inequality, qualitative methods
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @kenHkolb

J. Slade Lellock

  • Affiliation: Virginia Tech
  • Research interests: legitimation, qualitative methodologies, digital sociology, taste, inequality
  • Academic Position: PhD Candidate

Carol S. Lindquist

  • Affiliation: Texas Tech University, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work
  • Research interests: food, vernacular architecture, gender
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Omar Lizardo

  • Affiliation: UCLA
  • Research interests: Sociology of Taste, Culture & Consumption
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Norah MacKendrick

  • Affiliation: Rutgers University, Department of Sociology
  • Research interests: gender, environment, health, STS
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @nmackend

Andre F. Maciel

  • Affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dept. of Marketing
  • Research interests: cultural change, ethnography
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Jennifer Smith Maguire 

  • Affiliation: Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Business School
  • Research interests: cultural intermediaries, taste, and wine
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @consumapalooza

Ashley Mears

  • Affiliation: Boston University, Sociology
  • Research interests: economic sociology, gender, culture
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Laura J. Miller

  • Affiliation: Brandeis University, Department of Sociology
  • Research interests: consumer culture, cultural movements, natural foods, book industry
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Murray Milner, Jr

  • Affiliation: Inst. for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC), University of Virginia
  • Research interests: status systems, consumerism
  • Academic Position: Faculty 

Alex Mitchell

  • Affiliation: California State Polytechnic Pomona, International Business and Marketing
  • Research interests: market dynamics, innovation, technology, institutional change, digital qualitative methods
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Harvey Molotch

  • Affiliation: New York University, Sociology
  • Research interests: product design, cities, distinction
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Leonard Nevarez

  • Affiliation: Vassar College
  • Research interests: place, amenities, food systems
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @LeonardNevarez

Tani Nguyen

  • Affiliation: Hoa Sen University
  • Research interests: ethical consumption, consumption movements
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Richard Ocejo

  • Affiliation: CUNY (John Jay College and the Graduate Center)
  • Research interests: urban, culture, work
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Merin Oleschuk

  • Affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Human Development and Family Studies
  • Research interests: food; gender; families & relationships; health
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @merinoleschuk

Marjukka Ollilainen

  • Affiliation: Weber State University, Sociology & Anthropology
  • Research interests: Gendered academia, motherhood, embodiment, work/life issues
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Brian Ott

  • Affiliation: Truman State University
  • Research interests: Work, Consumer Culture/Markets, Body/Embodiment, Ethnography
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Victoria Reyes

  • Affiliation: University of California, Riverside, Sociology
  • Research interests: culture, global and transnational sociology, economic sociology, urban sociology
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @victoriadreyes

Tim Rosenkranz

  • Affiliation: The New School for Social Research
  • Research interests: Marketing, Tourism, Globalization, Consumer Perceptions
  • Academic Position: Student

Roberta Spalter-Roth

  • Affiliation: Center for Social Science Research, George Mason University
  • Research interests: extended families, division of labor, religious rituals
  • Academic Position: Senior Research Fellow

Paolo Parra Saiani

  • Affiliation: University of Genoa, Department of Political Sciences
  • Research interests: car sharing, mobility, choices
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @parrasaiani

Joshua Sbicca

  • Affiliation: Colorado State University, Department of Sociology
  • Research interests: food, inequalities, social movements, urban studies
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @joshsbicca

Juliet Schor

  • Affiliation: Boston College, Sociology
  • Research interests: consumption and inequality, sharing economy, ethical consumption, sustainable consumption, Bourdieu
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @JulietSchor

Justin Schupp

  • Affiliation: Wheaton College, MA
  • Research interests: food systems, stratification, social movements
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Rachel Skaggs

  • Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
  • Research interests: culture industries, social networks, work and occupations
  • Academic Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Twitter Handle: @rachelskaggs

Amy Singer

  • Affiliation: Franklin & Marshall College, Sociology
  • Research interests: cultural production, intermediation, cultural value, market devices, food
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Nadia Smiecinska

  • Affiliation: UC Davis
  • Research interests: growth, development, neoliberalism, social policy
  • Academic Position: Student

Alana Haynes Stein

  • Affiliation: University of California Davis
  • Research interests: food, inequality, organizations
  • Academic Position: PhD Student

Alexander C. Sutton

  • Affiliation: University of Virginia
  • Research interests: cultural production, creativity, aesthetics, material culture
  • Academic Position: Graduate Student

Nga Than

  • Affiliation: City University of New York – The Graduate Center
  • Research interests: Urban Consumption, Artisanal Production
  • Academic Position: Student

Faye Linda Wachs

  • Affiliation: Cal Poly Pomona, Sociology
  • Research interests: gender, sport, body, STEM, media, politics
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @fayewachs

Melanie Wallendorf

  • Affiliation: University of Arizona, Department of Marketing and School of Sociology
  • Research interests: sociocultural aspects of consumption, social position and consumption
  • Academic Position: Faculty

Michelle Weinberger

  • Affiliation: Northwestern University, Integrated Marketing Communications
  • Research interests: consumption rituals, gift giving, boundaries, social class
  • Academic Position: Faculty
  • Twitter Handle: @consumerlife

Claudia Mendez Wright

  • Affiliation: Utah State University
  • Research interests: Consumer culture, motherhood, migration, natural resources
  • Academic Position: PhD Student
  • Twitter Handle: @ClaudiaMWright1

Fang Xu

  • Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California Berkeley
  • Research interests: cultural consumption, habitus, China Studies, identity
  • Academic Position: Lecturer

Gary Yeritsian

  • Affiliation: UCLA
  • Research interests: cultural participation, media and time
  • Academic Position: PhD Student