About Kristin J. Lieb
In 2013, she published the first edition of Gender, Branding, and The Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars with Routledge. In 2018, she published the second edition. The third edition is forthcoming in 2026.
She also enjoys writing mainstream, trade, and crossover articles and commentaries, as she has done for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, BuzzFeed, The Conversation, and The Independent.
Dr. Lieb’s research and insights have been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, USA Today, Agence France-Presse, NBC Nightly News, NBC Morning News Now, and NBC.com, among others, and she has published and presented widely on topics that sit at the intersection of media studies, gender and sexuality studies, and production studies.
Professor Lieb guest lectures frequently, and has given invited presentations at Wesleyan University, New York University, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and Bentley University, among other institutions. She also enjoys presenting at events and conferences, delivering everything from a TedX talk at Tufts University, to conference talks at The Popular Culture Association, the International Communication Association, The Society for American Music, The International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and Console-ing Passions, to shorter-form “Ignite talks” at the Experience Music Project/The Museum of Pop Culture’s Pop Conference.
Before arriving at Emerson, Dr. Lieb held several executive-level marketing and business development positions in the music industry, including posts with Digital Music on Demand, Atomic Pop, and Newbury Comics Interactive. She also wrote case studies in entrepreneurship, social enterprise, finance, organizational behavior, and technology and operations management for Harvard Business School Publishing while working as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School.
Dr. Lieb earned a Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, an MBA from Northeastern University, and a B.A. in Magazine Journalism and American History from Syracuse University.
Contact Information
Email: kristin_lieb@emerson.edu