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BA: University of Virginia, Spanish and Cognitive Science
MA: Jagiellonian University, Central and Eastern European Studies
Areas of specialization: culture, economic sociology, markets, material culture, materiality, secondhand
Current Research
"Pricing Trash or Treasure: Technologies and Materialities of the Secondhand Clothing Market"
This project is an investigation into how market tools, materialities, and subjectivities come together in a situation of market exchange to produce value. At the crossroads of economic and cultural sociology, this research contributes to economic sociological understanding of markets and performativity, to empirical research on secondhand markets, and to the material turn in cultural sociology. I argue that rather than seeing the nature of value in a market as fixed, or as socially negotiated, it should be understood as arising in interactions between actors, goods, and market technologies. I focus on the pricing mechanism in Polish secondhand shops to demonstrate how various kinds of goods and their values are “produced” within one market. This project is a case study of thirteen secondhand clothing shops that represent three different price technologies and a variety of different price points, and is based on participant observation and interviews with shop employees, owners, and customers.
Graduate Students
- Hyangseon Ahn
- Ezgi Akgüloğlu
- Aleli Andres
- Leroy Joey Arciniega
- Soran Artin
- Jesus Ayala-Candia
- Ruby Ben
- Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer
- Davide Carpano
- Tito Carvalho
- Fenghua Chen
- Eunchong Cho
- Elena De Leo
- Lindsay DePalma
- Weiai Fang
- Rebecca Franklin
- Alejandra Fregozo-Vargas
- Fan Fu
- Andrea Garcia
- Camila Gonzalez Paz Paredes
- Ross Graham
- Emma Greeson
- Katie Hale
- Melissann Herron
- Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp
- Hart Hornor-Jones
- Doreen Hsu
- Yen-Ting Hsu
- Kelly Shea Jones
- Jinhyuk Kim
- Min Ji Kim
- Fatima Khayar Cámara
- Donghyun Koo
- Andrea Kvietok
- Hee Eun Kwon
- Dasom Lee
- Chuncheng Liu
- Jiaqi Liu
- Stacey Livingstone
- Mariana Lopez
- Adriana Lopez Acle Delgado
- Ana Lopez-Ricoy
- Maya Machado
- Bernardo Mackenna
- Ayumi Matsuda
- Carolina Mayes
- Seth Merritt
- Elizabeth Miller
- Iman Muñiz
- Ke Nie
- Natalie Novick
- Junghun Oh
- Caroline Petronis
- Erick Ramirez
- Stephen Reynders
- Germano Ribeiro Fernandes Da Silva
- Elizabeth Riley
- Elari Rizkallah
- Jonathan Ruiz
- Sevin Sagnic
- Olivia Sanchez
- Kea Saper
- Tannistha Sarkar
- Lucas Sharma
- Karina Shklyan
- Panayiotis Sofocleous
- Sarah Stembridge
- Zahra Syarifah
- Zosia Sztykowski
- Yasemin Taskin Alp
- Yu (Joseph) Wang
- Beatrice Waterhouse
- Sophie Webb
- Aaron Widener
- Bolun Zhang