Amber Epp

Amber Epp is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on understanding collective phenomenon including the interplay of family and relational identities, collective goals, network agency, and group decision-making. Her work has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing, and she has co-authored book chapters on qualitative data analysis and family consumption behavior. Professor Epp’s dissertation received the inaugural Sidney J. Levy Award for outstanding Consumer Culture Theory research. Her work on how to maintain brand loyalty when family life is practiced across distances, as well as her research on new parent decision-making, has been funded by the Marketing Science Institute. Epp also serves on the editorial review boards for the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Consumer Research.

Her teaching interests include consumer behavior, services marketing, qualitative data analysis, and marketing management.

Selected Published Journal Articles

• Price, L. & Epp, A. (2015). The Heterogeneous and Open-Ended Project of Assembling Family. Assembling Consumption
• Epp, A. & Velagaleti, S. (2014). Outsourcing Parenthood? How Families Manage Care Assemblages Using Paid Commercial Services. Journal of Consumer Research (41), 911-935.
• Epp, A. & Jensen Schau, H. & Price, L. (2014). The Role of Brands and Mediating Technologies in Assembling Long-Distance Family Practices. Journal of Marketing (78), 81-101.
• Epp, A. & Price, L. (2011). Family Time in Consumer Culture: Implications for Transformative Consumer Research. Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being, 599-622.
• Epp, A. & Price, L. (2011). Designing Solutions around Customer Network Identity Goals. Journal of Marketing (75), 36-54. doi: 10.1509/jmkg.75.2.36.
• Epp, A. & Price, L. (2010). The Storied Life of Singularized Objects: Forces of Agency and Network Transformation. Journal of Consumer Research (36), 820-37. doi: 10.1086/603547.
• Thompson, B. & Koenig Kellas, J. & Soliz, J. & Thompson, J. & Epp, A. & Schrodt, P. (2009). Family Legacies: Constructing Individual and Family Identity through Intergenerational Storytelling. Narrative Inquiry (19), 106-134. doi: 10.1075/ni.19.1.07tho.
• Epp, A. & Price, L. (2008). Family Identity: A Framework of Identity Interplay in Consumption Practices. Journal of Consumer Research (35), 50-70. doi: 10.1086/529535.
• Arnould, E. & Epp, A. (2006). Deep Engagement with Consumer Experience: Listening and Learning with Qualitative Data. The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Research

Selected Submitted Journal Articles

Velagaleti, S. & Epp, A. (2016). From Symbolic Violence to Symbolic Revolution: The Diverse Destigmatization Experiences of LGBT Consumers. Journal of Consumer Research

Presentations

MSI Young Scholars Event ( 2017 ) The Commercialization of Family Life

Association for Consumer Research Conference ( 2015 ) Pursuing Marriage Equality in the Marketplace: Stigmatized Consumers’ Responses to Mainstream Marketplace Access

Families and Well-Being Seminar Series ( 2015 ) Outsourcing Parenthood: How Families Manage Care Assemblages Using Expanded Services

Consumer Culture Theory Conference ( 2015 ) Pursuing Marriage Equality in the Marketplace: Stigmatized Consumers’ Responses to Mainstream Marketplace Access

C4 Research Series ( 2015 ) New Parent Decision Making in a Culture of Choice Overload

ACR Perspectives Session ( 2014 ) (Re)assembling the Social in Consumer Research

AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium ( 2014 ) Consumer Culture Theory Session

ACR Doctoral Symposium ( 2013 ) Consumer Culture Theory Session

ACR Doctoral Symposium ( 2012 ) Consumer Culture Theory Session

Speaker Series ( 2012 ) Connected Families: How Consumption Practices Survive Distances

Association for Consumer Research Conference ( 2011 ) Connected Families: How Consumption Practices Survive Distance

AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium ( 2011 ) Qualitative Data Analysis Session

AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium ( 2011 ) Young Scholars Panel

European Association for Consumer Research conference ( 2010 ) Eliciting and Analyzing Collectively-Told Narratives for Consumer Research

AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium ( 2010 ) Young Scholars Panel

Speaker Series ( 2010 ) Designing Solutions around Customer Network Goals

Speaker series ( 2010 ) How Customer Networks Integrate Resources to Accomplish Identity Goals: A New Approach to Platform Design

AMA Summer Educators’ Conference ( 2009 ) Transitioning from Doctoral Student to Junior Faculty: Best Practices

Consumer Culture Theory Conference ( 2009 ) The Idealization of Family Dinner and Post-Feminist Strivings

American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ conference ( 2008 ) Authoritative Performances: How Families Use Firms’ Operand Resources

Association for Consumer Research conference ( 2008 ) Agency, Identity, and Materiality: The Storied Life of a Family and Their Table

Consumer Culture Theory conference ( 2008 ) Consuming Together and Apart: Sharing as Being a Family

Association for Consumer Research conference ( 2007 ) Idealized Family Time: Collective Identity Interplay in Vacations

European Association for Consumer Research Conference ( 2007 ) Family Identity and the Meaning of Home

Association for Consumer Research Conference ( 2006 ) Enacting the Family Legacy: How Family Themes Influence Consumption Behavior

European Association for Consumer Research Conference ( 2006 ) Reflecting Family: Home Furnishings as Consumption Symbols of Family Identity

National Communication Association Conference ( 2006 ) Family Legacies: Constructing Individual and Family Identity through Intergenerational Storytelling

Association for Consumer Research Conference ( 2005 ) Rethinking Family Consumption: An Exploration of Family Identity

International Conference on Marketing and Development Proceedings ( 2005 ) Senses of Family as Judged from Cross-Country Comparisons of Family Public Policies

Undergraduate Courses

Services Marketing (MKT 490), Fall 2005.

Services Marketing (MKT 490), Fall 2006.

Marketing Management (MKT 442), Summer 2006.

Introduction to Marketing (MKT 341), Summer 2004.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 305 Section 1), Fall 2008.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 305 Section 2), Fall 2008.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 305 Section 3), Fall 2008.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 305 Section 1), Fall 2009.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 305 Section 2), Fall 2009.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 305 Section 1), Fall 2010.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 305 Section 2), Fall 2010.

Graduate Courses

Consumer Behavior (MKT 705 Section 1), Fall 2009.

Consumer Behavior (MKT 705 Section 1), Fall 2010.

Editorial and Reviewing Activities

Journal of Marketing Research - Since November 2015 Ad Hoc Reviewer

Journal of Services Research - Since December 2014 Ad Hoc Reviewer

Journal of Consumer Research - Since June 2013 Editorial Board Member

Journal of Marketing - Since December 2012 Editorial Board Member

Journal of Consumer Culture - Since January 2010 Invited Manuscript Reviewer

Journal of Consumer Psychology - Since January 2010 Ad Hoc Reviewer

Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition - January 2010 - December 2010 Ad Hoc Reviewer

ACR/Sheth Foundation Dissertation Grants Competition - January 2010 - December 2010 Ad Hoc Reviewer

John A. Howard/AMA Doctoral Award Competition - January 0001 - November 2012 Ad Hoc Reviewer