Dan Cook

Background

About Dan Cook

Dr. Cook’s research focuses on the rise of children as consumers in the United States, presently and historically. In particular, he explores the various ways in which tensions between “the child” and “the market” play themselves out in various sites of children’s consumer culture, such as advertising, food, rituals, clothing and media. He is the author of The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer (2004, Duke University Press) and an Editor of Childhood, A Journal of Global Child Research http://chd.sagepub.com/. Along with John Wall, Cook is editor of Children and Armed Conflict (2011, Palgrave Macmillan) and is sole editor of Symbolic Childhood (2002, Peter Lang) and The Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008, Palgrave Macmillan). He is author of numerous articles and chapters on children in American culture.