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Thailand Study Tour 2008 (pdf)
Spring 2008 Southeastern Consortium
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Spring 2008 Advising Day
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- Proposed Plan of Study
New York Fashion Trip 2008
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Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies
Graduate Faculty
Carl
Dyer, Ph.D. ,
Hayes Distinguished Professor
Economics and dynamics of the consumer, apparel, retailing, and textile (CART) complex; methodological and statistical components of consumer research in apparel and related products; consumer expenditure analysis; cohort analysis; consumer demand and market research for soft lines; and economics of the retail supply chain..
Nancy
J. Nelson Hodges, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Issues of dress, gender identity, and consumer behavior; education and employment of women in the US and North Carolina apparel industry; epistemological and methodological components of apparel consumer research; qualitative and interpretative inquiry into dress, consumption, and human behavior.
Gwendolyn S. O'Neal, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair
Meanings assigned to apparel products and their impact on preferences and behavior; clothing related violence; African American aesthetic of dress; consumer perception of apparel quality.
Tu Watchravesringkan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Cross-cultural consumer and retail studies (inter-country and intra-country analysis); Internet retailing; marketing communications; service quality and customer satisfaction; adolescents; consumer complaint behavior; and measurement issues.