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Ashton, Dub
Bechtel, Donald
Burton, Scot
Cheever, Bruce
Cole, John
Cox, Nicole
Eroglu, Cuneyt
Hofer, Adriana
Hofer, Christian
Howlett, Betsy
Jensen, Molly
Jensen, Thomas Dept Chair
Kopp, Steven
Kurtz, David
Murray, Jeff
Ozment, John
Rapert, Molly
Smith, Ronn
Stassen, Robert
Tremwel, Terry
Waller, Matthew
Ph.D. Students
Cho, Yoon-Na
Jin, Yao
Newman, Christopher
Stokes, Amy
Swanson, Roger
Tangari, Andrea
Thyroff, Anastasia
Turri, Anna
Staff
Hart, Melynda
Lukens, Allison
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 Jeff B. Murray
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Degrees
- BA, University of Northern Colorado, Social Science, 1978
- MA, University of Northern Colorado, Sociology, 1981
- Ph.D., VPI & State University, Marketing, 1987
Teaching Areas
- Shopper, Buyer, and Consumer Behavior
- Managing Ideas, Products, and Services
- Interpretive Consumer Research
Research Interests
- Consumer Culture Theory
- Interpretive Consumer Research
- Fashion and the Body
Jeff B. Murray, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech) is a professor in the Marketing and Logistics Department,
Walton College, University of Arkansas. Dr. Murray teaches in the undergraduate program, the full-time
MBA program, the managerial MBA program and the executive MBA program in Shanghai, China. He has also
taught in the doctoral program serving as Director of Doctoral Studies in Marketing for six years.
Professor Murray’s doctoral students, who are now professors, teach at major universities throughout
the United States, Europe, and Australia. His research focuses on ethnography and semiotics in the
context of shopper, buyer, and consumer behavior. Dr. Murray has recently taught doctoral seminars
and workshops in ethnography at the University of Gothenburg in Göteborg, Sweden and the University
of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research,
Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Consumer Policy, American Behavioral
Scientist, and Consumption, Markets and Culture. Professor Murray is currently serving on the editorial
review board of the consumer behavior journal Consumption, Markets and Culture and is on the program
committee for the Consumer Culture Theory Conference 2008. He remains active in the American Marketing
Association, the Association for Consumer Research, and the American Sociological Association. In 2002,
Dr. Murray won both the Outstanding All-Around Professor Award as well as the prestigious Charles and N
adine Baum Faculty Teaching Award at the University of Arkansas.
Professor Murray resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas with his wife and son.Recent Research Articles
- The Sociology of Consumption: The Hidden Facet of Marketing
- Inscribing the Personal Myth: The Role of Tattoos in Identification
- The Politics of Consumption: A Re-Inquiry on Thompson and Haytko's (1997) 'Speaking of Fashion'
- Manufacturer - Supplier Relationships: An Empirical Test of a Model of Buyer Outcomes
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