Assistant Professor, Marketing
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
Marcel Rosa-Salas is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is a cultural anthropologist & documentarian who proudly hails from Brooklyn, NY.
She researches, writes and teaches about the power that consumer culture has in shaping our common sense about race, ethnicity, & what it means to be a human being.
She is the co-author of The Nameplate: Jewelry, Culture and Identity (with Isabel Flower) and she is completing her book about racially targeted advertising Total Market American: Race, Data & Advertising (forthcoming with Duke University Press).
Rosa-Salas has a PhD in cultural anthropology from New York University and received my B.A. in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Selected Publication
Marcel Rosa-Salas, Isabel Flower
Jul 2023 • Penguin Random House
Nameplate Jewellery and the Practice of Oppositional Respectability
Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower
Aug 2020 • Journal of Marketing Management 1308-1337
Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas
Nov 2017 • QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 4(3):109-126 • Michigan State University Press