CS Graduate Programs
Graduate Faculty
Professors in the Department of Consumer Sciences are authorities in a wide variety of areas. Their work is frequently cited in top-tier research publications and many hold or have held editorial positions with leading journals. Professors involve graduate students in research projects as early as possible to acquaint them with the process of doing research in preparation for their master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. Some areas of recent student-faculty research include: bankruptcy, body image, cultural consumer identity, e-shopping, health economics, household credit use, human capital investment, investment portfolio allocation, personal finance education, on-line retailing, purchase intentions, retirement preparation, and training and retention of service employees.
Graduate Faculty Research Interests
| Faculty | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Gong-Soog Hong, Ph.D. | Professor and Chair |
Health care; complimentary and alternative medicine use; family financial management; consumer expenditure analysis; aging. |
| Margaret Binkley, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor |
Food safety issues including training, restaurant culture, consumer food safety knowledge, nutritional labeling, and obesity issues. |
| Jae Eun Chung, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor |
Consumer behavior; retailer-supplier channel relationships; international marketing. |
| Patricia Cunningham, Ph.D | Associate Professor |
History of clothing; textiles and dress as a popular culture phenomenon. |
| Jonathan Fox, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Process by which individuals acquire money management skills, including identification of at-risk populations and evaluation of consumer education programs to inform education policy. |
| R. Thomas George, Ed.D. | Associate Professor |
Development of programs to assist individuals and hospitality organizations to be more effective in providing a psychological work environment conducive to meeting individual and organizational goals. |
| Sherman Hanna, Ph.D. | Professor | Optimal portfolios; theoretical base for prescriptive family financial management; empirical analyses of consumer spending patterns and financial decisions. |
| Kathryn Jakes, Ph.D. | Professor | Composition, structure, and degradation of historic and archaeological textiles and their environment; lifecycle performance of modern textiles. |
| Wayne Johnson, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Management of human and material resources; "greening" practices in the hospitality industry; principles and practices in academic and industry programs. |
| Jay Kandampully, Ph.D. | Professor | Services management and marketing; service delivery and quality management; technology and its contributions to services. |
| Cäzilia Loibl, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor |
Financial planning; adult financial education; economic psychology. |
| Catherine Montalto, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Family economics; family economic well-being including well-being of children and well-being in retirement; intrahousehold resource allocation; household labor supply. |
| Nancy A. Rudd, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Clothing and appearance management strategies for special needs consumers, including individuals with body image disorders, post-mastectomy women, elderly, chemotherapy patients; assessment of functional, aesthetic and psychosocial needs which direct appearance decisions and influence quality of life. |
| Robert Scharff, J.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor |
Economics of consumer choice; economics of health and safety; risk analysis; regulatory analysis; behavioral economics; law and economics. |
| Sharon Seiling, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Financial, physical, and emotional well-being of rural low-income families in the post-welfare reform era, including food security, employment patterns/benefits, family coping strategies, and role of community context in family sustainability. |
| Kathryn Stafford, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Family business management. |
| Leslie Stoel, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Competitive marketing strategies of retailers and their channel partners, primarily in the textile and apparel industries; consumer shopping behaviors; influence of technology on retailer behavior; shopper behavior and student learning behavior. |
| Susan Zavotka, Ph.D. | Associate Professor |
Functional, social, and psychological impact of interior design solutions on individual's behaviors; social and emotional effect of design decisions on older adults living in Assisted Living Facilities as well as preferences of older adults for particular styles, patterns, and colors. |
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