Faculty Profiles

Housing Design

KIM K. JOHNSON, Ph.D.
Professor, Retail Merchandising Program
Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel
368c McNeal Hall

1985 Buford Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55108-6136
(612) 624-3687
kjohnson@umn.edu

Specialties & Expertise:

  • Retail Merchandising
  • Social Psyshological Aspects of Clothing
  • Consumer Behavior
     Course Titles (resident and outreach teaching):
  • DHA 1201 Design, Merchandising & the Consumer
  • DHA 4212 Dress, Society and Culture
  • DHA 3196 /5196 National/International Study in DHA
  • DHA 4196 Field Experience/Internship
  • DHA 8181 Research and Ethics
  • DHA 8102 Quantitative research methods
      Selected Scholarship:
  • Lennon, S., Ha, Y., Johnson, K., Damhorst, M., Jasper, C., & Lyons, N. (2009). Rural consumers’ online shopping for apparel, food, and home furnishings products as a form of outshopping. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. 27(1), 3-30.
  • Lee, J., Johnson, K. K. P., Gahring, S., & Lee, S. (2008). Business strategies of independent retailers: Effects of environmental hostility. Journal of Small
  • Lee, S., Johnson, K. P. K. Gahring, S., Lee, S-E (2008). Business strategies of successful rural retailers in competition with large discount retailers in the U.S., /Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, 32/(6), 968-979.
  • Johnson, K. K. P., & Rhee, J. (2008). An investigation of consumer traits and their relationship to merchandise borrowing with undergraduates. Journal of Family and Consumer Science Education, 26(1), 1-13. [online journal]
  • Yoo, J., & Johnson, K. K. P. (2008). Self-objectification and appearance-basedteasing during adolescence. Journal of Family and Consumer Science Education, 26(1), 14-28. [online journal]
  • Adomaitis, A., & Johnson, K. K. P. (2008). Advertisements: Interpreting images used to sell young adults. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 12(2), 182-192.
  • Lee, S., Johnson, K. K. P., & Gahring, S. (2008). Predicting in-shopping using small –town consumers’ satisfaction with local retailers. /International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, 36(2), 143-157.
  • Johnson, K. K. P., Yoo, J., Kim, M., & Lennon, S. J. (2008). Dress and human behavior: A review and critique of published research. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 26(1), 3-22.

Professional, Institutional, and Community Leadership and Service:

  • 2002-present Retail Merchandising Program Chair
     

Awards:

  • International Textile and Apparel Association, Best Paper-Consumer Behavior Track, 2007
  • College of Human Ecology-Excellence in Discovery Award, 2006
  • Dean and Director’s Distinguished Team Award for the Retail Analysis and Development Program-2005
  • Excellence in Community Vitality Programming Award given by the Minnesota Community and Natural Resources Association (for Retail Analysis and Development Program Team)- 2005
  • 2002 Fellow International and Apparel Association