M. Joseph Sirgy

Executive Director of MIQOLS

Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor Emeritus of Marketing, USA

Extraordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa

Contact Information

6020 Lyons Road
Dublin, Virginia 24084, USA

sirgy@vt.edu
joe.sirgy (skype)

Bio and Curriculum Vitae (CV):

• Biographical Sketch
• Abbreviated Vitae
• Publications by Year

Other Professional Roles

• Extraordinary Professor: WorkWell Research Unit, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
• Co-Editor: Journal of Macromarketing; Brief Introduction
• Executive Director: Management Institute for Quality-of-Life Studies (MIQOLS)
• Founding Co-Editor: Applied Research in Quality of Life (ARQOL)
• Co-Editor of Springer Book Series: Human Well-Being and Policy-Making
• Co-Founder: International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS)
• Instructor: Psychology of Well-being Certification Course (ISQOLS)
• Instructor: Community Indicators Research Certification Course (ISQOLS)
• Instructor: Work-Life Balance Certification Course (ISQOLS)

Interviews, Podcasts, and Misc.

• Nicolas Procel Podcast on The Science of a Happy Life (2026)
• Honoring 30 Years of ISQOLS (2025)
• Interview: Celebrating ISQOLS 30th Anniversary (2025)
• Interview: Capturing Residents’ Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Tourism (2024)
• Interview: How Travel Contributes to Personal Happiness (2024)
• Interview: UN-Habitat 3rd Expert Group Meeting in Nairobi (2023)
• Interview: Editor´s interview for study on research-practice divide (2023)
• Interview: Jane Machin interviewing Joe Sirgy about Consumer Mental Wellbeing (2023)
• Announcement: Professor Emeritus (2020)
• Retirement Accolades (2020)
• Interview in MEJPS (2017)
• Oral History Interview (2015)

Recent Books

• Co-Author: Happiness in the Marketplace
• Co-Author: Organizational Strategies for Work-Life Balance
• Co-Editor: Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research II
• Author: Work-Life Balance
• Author: Community Quality-of-Life Indicators
• Co-Editor: Community, Economy, and COVID-19
• Author: The Balanced Life
• Author: Psychology of Quality of Life (Third Edition)
• Author: Positive Balance
• Co-Editor: Managing Quality of Life in Tourism and Hospitality
• Co-Author: Advances in Well-Being
• Co-Author: Combatting Jihadist Terrorism
• Co-Editor: Pursuit of Human Well-Being
• Author: Real Estate Marketing

Recent Speeches, Talks, and Seminars

• Personal Resilience and Wellbeing (ISQOLS Conference, 2025)
• Integrating Research on Purchase Happiness (2025)
• Celebrating 50 Years of Macromarketing Conferences (2025)
• ISQOLS Webinar on Community Wellbeing (2025)
• Tips on How to Publish in the Journal of Macromarketing (2024)
• Workshop at the World Urban Forum, Cairo (2024)
• Organizational Strategies for Work-Life Balance (ISQOLS Virtual Conference, 2024)
• Measuring Societal Progress (ISQOLS Webinar, 2023)
• History of Social Indicators Research and QOL Metrics (STATEC, 2023)
• Mitigating the Health and Economic Effects of COVID-19 (Springer, 2022)
• Interventions for Social Change (ISQOLS Conference, 2022)
• The Psychology of Wellbeing: Part 1 (ISQOLS Conference, 2022)
• The Psychology of Wellbeing: Part 2 (ISQOLS Conference, 2022)
• Wellbeing Research in Tourism (Global Tourism and Hospitality Conference, 2022)
• Universal Rights Monitoring: A Quality-of-Life Perspective (2022)
• Psychology of Wellbeing Certification (ISQOLS, 2022)
• Community Quality-of-Life Theory in Travel/Tourism Research (Volume 28 Quality of Life, 2022)
• Crash Course in the Psychology of Wellbeing (ISQOLS Conference, 2021)
• The Case for the Use of Wellbeing Indicators to Guide Public Policy (ISQOLS Conference, 2021)
• The Balanced Life (Seminar at North-West University, 2021)
• Enhancing the Quality of Life of Senior Tourists through Goals: A Theory (CBTS, 2020)
• Self-Congruity and Consumer Behavior (MTCON Congress, 2020)
• Positive Balance (Seminar at the Leibniz-Psychology.Org, 2019)