Professor Russell Belk is York University Distinguished Research Professor, Royal Society of Canada Fellow, and Kraft Foods Canada Chair of marketing at the Schulich School of Business. He brings to the IMS at Goldsmiths his leading expertise in extended self, meanings of possessions, collecting, gift-giving, sharing, digital consumption, and materialism.
Professor Russell Belk has published more than 800 publications, including more than 30 in the Journal of Consumer Research. He began his current role at the Schulich School of Business in 2006 after 25 years at University of Utah, five years at University of Illinois, two years at Temple University, and a total of seven years getting his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees at the University of Minnesota.
He has received numerous teaching, best paper, and research awards, including the Paul D. Converse Award, two Fulbright Fellowships, the Sheth Foundation/Journal of Consumer Research Award for Long Term Contribution, the Arch Woodside Award, and the Carl Bode Award.
He is a Fellow in ACR, APA, the Royal Society of Canada. He received a Doctorate Honoris Causa with a festschrift from the Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne in France in 2023. He received an ALCOR Hall of Fame star that same year and the Russell Belk Centre for International Relations was established at Woxsen University in Hyderabad, India.
In 2012 a ten-volume set of his papers was published in the Sage Legends in Consumer Behavior series with interviews and commentaries.
Website
schulich.yorku.ca/faculty/russell-w-belk/
