About me:
My research interests include environmental communications, agro-food economies, sustainable consumption, the socio-politics of land use, and nutritional health and body image from a global perspective. I am currently working on a number of projects including organizing a campus-wide project on green advertising, editing a special issue of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues on "Sports and the Politics of Nature," leading an NEH funded research project on the cultural history of Lithuanian traditional foods and their nutritional health images, and writing a book on the informal raw milk economies of Lithuania.
I received my PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the direction of Professors Zsuzsa Gille and Andrew Pickering in 2006. My dissertation, "Small-Scale Farms, Large-Scale Politics: The Changing Landscape of Rural Lithuania," analyzed the transformation of rural communities in Lithuania with the introduction of European agricultural reforms. I approached the changes taking place in local economies as embedded in human subjectivities and informal social networks, and utilized both historical and ethnographic methodologies.
I am currently teaching in the Department
of Advertising, part of the College
of Communications. My current courses include Sustainable
Consumption, Body Image in Consumer Culture, and Green Consumerism.
Previously, I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses on
Africa in World Perspective, Introduction to Popular Culture,
Post-socialism in East Europe, Globalization, Advertising in Communications,
and Consumer Decision Making.
Contact me:
Diana Mincyte
Department of Advertising
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
103 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright St
Urbana, IL 61801
email: mincyte AT uiuc.edu