Professor Russell Belk
Professor Russell W. Belk
The 2011 Kahneman lecturer of the
International Association for Research in Economic Psychology
Russell is a professor of Marketing in the Schulich School of Business, York University and since 2006 has acted as the Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing.
Russell is one of the most prolific contemporary consumer behaviour and marketing scholars. He authored one of the seminal papers in the field of marketing, “Possessions and the Extended Self”, along with nearly 500 other publications to his name. Russell’s research involves the meanings of possessions, collecting, gift-giving, sharing, and materialism. His work is often cultural, visual, qualitative, and interpretive. Russell’s work explores the notion that our ideas about ourselves are often bound up or represented in what we desire, what we own, and how we use these things.
Russell’s contributions to marketing have meant that he has received many prominent awards including: the Sheth Foundation/Journal of Consumer Research Award for Long Term Contribution to Consumer Research (2005), Paul D. Converse Award, American Marketing Association (2004), and Fellow in the Association for Consumer Research (1994). We are grateful that Russell has agreed to be with us, and can assure you that this will be one of everybody’s highlights of the conference.