Associate Professor of Marketing
College of Business & Entrepreneurship
Montana State University
United States of America
Graham Austin’s research centers on consumer perceptions and emerging strategic marketing paradigms. She is particularly interested in people’s use of consumption—and non-consumption—as a means of communication. She focuses on how consumers deliberately use consumption in order to pursue higher-order personal and community goals. As such, she has studied consumer perceptions of gift cards vs. gifts, Montana’s craft brewing industry, and the barefoot-running movement. Dr. Austin has recently worked on interdisciplinary research collaborations related to suicide prevention and intervention in Montana, farm-to-table innovations, and mobile user-centered technologies to help manage Type 1 diabetes.
Transformative consumer research, Consumer culture theory, Human-centered design, Strategic empathy