Jeffrey S PodoshenProfessor of Marketing

Professor Jeff Podoshen signed on with F&M in 2005 upon completing his dissertation at the Fox School of Business at Temple University.  Podoshen's previous academic experience includes working as an educator in the Federal Bureau of Prisons at Fort Dix Federal  Correctional Facility as well as the Federal Correctional Institution at Fairton.  

Podoshen's professional experience includes a number of years in both the financial industry at Vanguard in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and in management consulting at Willis Towers Watson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A leading scholar in dark tourism and death consumption, Podoshen's research has been highly cited and published in some of the leading journals in his field such as Tourism Management, Marketing Theory and International Journal of Consumer Studies. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Consumer Studies. He often performs his research with his students in the US, Canada and Northern Europe. 

Education

Ph.D., Temple University, Fox School of Business

M.B.A.,  Temple University, Fox School of Business

B.S., University of Delaware, Lerner College of Business & Economics

Recent Publications

Podoshen, J.S., Keech, J., Melkamu, E., & Zheng, S. (2023). “It’s always a beautiful day in The Villages”: Management challenges for large-scale retirement communities. Journal of Aging and Environment (in press).

Podoshen, J.S., Ekpo, A., & Abiru, O. (2021). Diversity, tokenism and comic books:  Crafting better strategies. Business Horizons, 64 (1), 131-140.

Keech, J., Morrin, M., & Podoshen, J.S. (2020). The effects of materialism and luxury branding on consumer acceptance of sustainable synthetic (lab-grown) products.  Journal of Consumer Marketing, 35 (5), 579-590.

Keech, J., Papakroni, J., & Podoshen, J.S. (2020). Gender differences in materialism, power, risk-aversion, self-consciousness, and social comparison.  Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 32 (2), 83-93.

Dev, M., Podoshen, J.S., & Shahzad, M. (2018).  An exploratory comparison of materialism and conspicuous consumption in Pakistan.  Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 30 (5), 317-325.

Podoshen, J.S., Yan, G., Andrzejewski, S.A., Wallin, J., & Venkatesh, V. (2018).  Dark tourism, abjection and blood:  A festival context. Tourism Management, 64 (2), 346-356.

Podoshen, J.S., Andrzejewski, S.A., Wallin, J., & Venkatesh, V. (2018).  Consuming abjection:  an examination of death and disgust in the black metal scene.  Consumption, Markets and Culture, 21 (2), 107-128.

Jeff Podoshen on Google Scholar