PhD; MCom (Marketing); MSc (Int. Marketing Communications); B.A. Hum. (Culture, Ecology & Sustainable Community – Sustainable Enterprise); Dip. H.S. (Clinical Nutrition)

Consumer Culture Theory (CCT)

Organisation Studies

Public Opinion & Social Evaluations: Perceptions of Legitimacy, Stigma, Authenticity & Credibility

Institutional Theory; Microfoundations of Institutions

Market System Dynamics; Market Shaping

Anna Hartman is a Lecturer in Marketing at the ANU Research School of Management holding graduate degrees in both commerce and integrated marketing communications.

Prior to academia, she worked as a marketing communications practitioner with specialty food and beverage brands in the United States and Australia. This included managing public relations, sponsorships, special events and digital marketing across trade and consumer audiences.

Her research interests are in how social evaluations (e.g., legitimacy, trust, stigma & authenticity) interact and shape markets and market categories specific to areas of cultural consumption. This interdisciplinary area draws from the sociology of markets and consumption, institutional theory and consumer culture—linking to studies in consumer research, services and strategic communications. Her studies have appeared in Journal of Business Research; Marketing Intelligence and Planning; Australasian Marketing Journal and the Journal of Service Research.

Her dissertation (University of Melbourne) used ethnographic and discursive analysis research methods to investigate how consumers and marketers navigate markets where one or more dimensions of legitimacy are persistently contested. The micro-practices of marketers were identified in how they attempt to reshape legitimacy perceptions and facilitate transactions. Further insights examined the emotional challenges faced by consumers in such markets, as well as their coping strategies in market participation.