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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
- Andrea Abel
- Hyangseon Ahn
- Stephanie Alaimo
- Rawan Arar
- Leroy Joey Arciniega
- Kevin Beck
- Crystal Ben
- Erica Bender
- Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer
- Colin Burke
- Davide Carpano
- Harrison Carter
- Tito Carvalho
- Cory Caswell
- Cat Crowder
- Daniel Davis
- Lindsay DePalma
- Ha Young Do
- Daniel Driscoll
- Donald Everhart
- Camila Gonzalez Paz Paredes
- Emma Greeson
- Armand Gutierrez
- Katie Hale
- Heather Harper
- Melissann Herron
- Doreen Hsu
- Yen-Ting Hsu
- Brynna Jacobson
- Fatima Khayar
- Donghyun Koo
- Hee Eun Kwon
- Da Som Lee
- Chuncheng Liu
- Jiaqi Liu
- Stacey Livingstone
- Jane Lilly Lopez
- Carolina Mayes
- Angela Y. McClean
- Haley McInnis
- Melynda Moseley
- Seth Merritt
- Ian Mullins
- Ke Nie
- Natalie Novick
- Junghun Oh
- Lauren Olsen
- Christine Payne
- Stephen Reynders
- Julia Rogers
- Laura Rogers
- Jonathan Ruiz
- Sevin Sagnic
- Karina Shklyan
- Germano Ribeiro Fernandes Da Silva
- Nick Smith
- Sarah Stembridge
- Yasemin Taskin Alp
- Chad Valasek
- Yu Wang (Joseph)
- Yue Yang
- Bolun Zhang
- Teresa Zimmerman-Liu