Assistant Professor Maura Troester Nuñez
Armory 1B39
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Maura.Troester@Colorado.edu
303-492-2373 phone
303-492-0969 fax

Assistant Professor Maura Troester joined the faculty in fall 2004 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she received her PhD in Marketing.   She is the author of "Roadside Retroscape:  History and the Marketing of Tourism in the Middle of Nowhere," published in Time, Space, and the Market:  Ecumenical Essays on the Rise of Retroscapes and has also published in the Journal of Consumer Research.  She has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences and has written more than 25 histories of brand name products for the Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands. Most recently, her dissertation won the Association for Consumer Research-Sheth Foundation Dissertation Award for its exploration of social conflicts that surround the marketing of undesirable products.  A former theater and dance critic for the Chicago Reader, Maura has a Diplome de Langue Francaise  (Troisieme Degree), from Alliance Francaise, Paris, and a BA from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.