Education:

  • Ph.D. - Iowa State University
  • M.S. - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • B.S. - Iowa State University

Teaching:

  • Social, Psychological, and Cultural Aspects of Dress and Appearance
  • Historic Material Culture/Costume
  • Research and Theory in Design and Merchandising

Research/Design Scholarship:

  • Media Influences Upon Appearance and Self
  • Body Image and Satisfaction
  • Appearance Socialization
  • Feminist Theories of the Body

Selected Publications or Juried Exhibits:

  • Ogle, J. P., Baker, S. S., Caroll, J. B., Butki, B. D., & Damhorst, M. L.  (in press).  A preliminary study of the meanings children attach to healthy and unhealthy lifestyles.  Journal of Extension.

  • Tyner, K. E., & Ogle, J. P.  (in press).  Feminist perspectives on dress and the body: An analysis of Ms. magazine, 1972 – 2002.  Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. 

  • Ogle, J. P., & Ullstrup, K.  (2006).  Breast cancer as an embodied life event:  A synthesis of research and theory and directions for intervention and future work.  Illness, Crisis, and Loss, 14(3), 225-245.

  • Smith, P. M., & Ogle, J. P.  (2006).  Interactions among high school cross country runners and coaches: Creating a cultural context for athletes’ embodied experiences.  Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 34(3), 276-307.

  • Ogle, J. P., & Damhorst, M. L.  (2005).  Critical reflections on the body and related socio-cultural discourses at the midlife transition:  An interpretive study of women’s experiences.  Journal of Adult Development, 12(1), 1-18.

  • Ogle, J. P., Lee, H. H., & Damhorst, M. L.  (2005).  Perceptions of body malleability:  Linkages with body-related feelings and behaviors among undergraduate women and men.  Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 34(1), 35-56.

  • Ballentine, L. W., & Ogle, J. P.  (2005).  The making and unmaking of body problems in Seventeen magazine, 1992-2003.  Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 33(4),281-307.

  • Ogle, J. P., & Damhorst, M. L.  (2004).  Constructing and deconstructing the body malleable through mother-daughter interactions.  Sociological Inquiry, 74(2), 180-209.

  • Ogle, J. P., Eckman, M. J., & Leslie, C. A.  (2003).  Appearance cues and the shootings at Columbine High:  Construction of a social problem in the print media.  Sociological Inquiry, 73(1), 1-27.

Current Research or Exhibit Projects:

  • Body Satisfaction and Image.  Measurement of body satisfaction; beliefs and attitudes related to body satisfaction and image; development and testing of educational curricula designed to change negative attitudes about obesity and to engender sensitivity toward obese persons. Collaborators: Drs. Mary Lynn Damhorst and Hyun-Hwa Lee.

  • Media and Family Influences upon Self and Appearance.  Content of media messages related to appearance and the body; meanings appearance-related media hold for individuals as they think about and behave toward the body; confluence of media, family, and peer influences upon health- and body-related attitudes and behaviors. Varied collaborators, including Drs. Mary Lynn Damhorst, Karen Hyllegard, Harriet McLeod, Sherry Schofield Tomschin, Donna Rouner, and Terry Yan.

  • Socially Responsible Advertising and Promotion of Food, Fiber, and Related Products:  Developing An Integrated Set of Undergraduate Courses.United States Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service:  Higher Education Challenge Grants Program, $448,504.  Development of research-based, interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum that will foster a socially responsible way of thinking among tomorrow’s leaders in the advertising and promotion of food, apparel, and related products.  Collaborators:  Drs. Karen Hyllegard, Mary Littrell, Jennifer Matheson, Jeffrey  Miller, Donna Rouner, Marianne Bickle, Cathy Gustafson, Nancy Rudd, and  Jackie Buell.   

 


Office Address:

Department of Design & Merchandising              

Colorado State University

314B Gifford Building

Fort Collins, CO 80523-1574

Phone:

(970) 491-3794

Fax:

(970) 491-4376

Email:

ogle@cahs.colostate.edu

 

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