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Russell Belk

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Russell Belk
Kraft Foods Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University
Website: http://research.schulich.yorku.ca/client/schulich/FacultyProfile.nsf/webpagekey/russell+belk
E-mail: rbelk@schulich.yorku.ca

Russell Belk is the Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at the Schulich School of Business. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of Minnesota in 1972. He is past president of the Association for Consumer Research and the International Association of Marketing and Development, and is a fellow in the Association for Consumer Research and the American Psychological Association. He has received the Paul D. Converse Award, two Fulbright Fellowships, and honorary professorships on four continents. In 2005 he received the Sheth Foundation/Journal of Consumer Research Award for Long Term Contribution to Consumer Research. Besides York, he has also taught at the University of Utah, University of Illinois, Temple University, Claremont Graduate University, and universities in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, New Zealand and Australia. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Professor Belk was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Hong Kong. His research involves the meanings of possessions, collecting, gift-giving, and materialism and his work is often cultural, visual, qualitative, and interpretive. He is the co-founder of the Association for Consumer Research Film Festival. He is currently on the editorial board of 20 journals, has over 400 publications and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research.

Keywords: Meanings of possessions; collecting; gift-giving; materialism; East Asia; Asian Diaspora

Upcoming Events

Feb
20
Wed
10:00 am Do Markets Matter in the War Aga... @ Room S123, Schulich School of Business
Do Markets Matter in the War Aga... @ Room S123, Schulich School of Business
Feb 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
In this paper, we theorize about the role of markets in the war on terror. We contend that as markets straddle the state and society, [...]
Feb
27
Wed
12:30 pm Law, Labour, Race & Migration @ Room 1003, Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School
Law, Labour, Race & Migration @ Room 1003, Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School
Feb 27 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Law, Labour, Race & Migration @ Room 1003, Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School
Legal History Panel Discussion Speakers: Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia) Radhika Mongia (York University) Moderator: Philip Girard (Osgoode Hall Law School) Light lunch will [...]
3:00 pm Being a Scholar-Practitioner of ... @ Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower
Being a Scholar-Practitioner of ... @ Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower
Feb 27 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Being a Scholar-Practitioner of South Asian Meditation Traditions @ Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower
  In this talk, three Scholar-Practitioners of Indic traditions of meditation will talk about their meditation practice as a simultaneous object of research, followed by [...]
Mar
1
Fri
2:00 pm KORE Event | Korean-Canadian Stu... @ Room 2101, Second Floor, Vari Hall
KORE Event | Korean-Canadian Stu... @ Room 2101, Second Floor, Vari Hall
Mar 1 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
KORE Event | Korean-Canadian Studies in a Comparative Context: Local and Global Connections @ Room 2101, Second Floor, Vari Hall
Work on the Korean diaspora and migration in Canada goes back roughly 30 years and recent scholarship on Korean migrants in Canada signals the emergence [...]
Mar
5
Tue
11:30 am Reflections on the Contemporary ... @ Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes
Reflections on the Contemporary ... @ Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes
Mar 5 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
This symposium aims to critically explore the contemporary political situation in India, in terms of political, economic and social rights of the citizens. The Global [...]
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