Mendoza School of Business

John Sherry

Raymond W. & Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Marketing Emeritus
Marketing
  • Biography

John F. Sherry, Jr. joined the Notre Dame Marketing faculty in 2005 as the Herrick Professor of Marketing. For the two previous decades, he was a member of the Marketing Department at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Sherry served as Chairman of the Department of Marketing at Notre Dame from 2005-2014. He is an anthropologist who studies both the sociocultural and symbolic dimensions of consumption, and the cultural ecology of marketing. He has researched, taught and lectured around the globe. He is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association as well as the Society for Applied Anthropology. Sherry is past President of the Consumer Culture Theory Consortium, past President of the Association for Consumer Research, and former Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. He sits on the editorial boards of several other journals. Sherry has edited and written 10 books, and authored more than 100 articles and chapters.