Journal of Consumer Research names Co-Editors

• The Journal of Consumer Research Policy Board is pleased to announce that Mary Frances Luce, Ann L. McGill, and Laura Peracchio have been named coeditors-designate of the Journal of Consumer Research. The new team, whose three-year term begins July 1, 2011, replaces John Deighton, who has served as editor-in-chief since July 2005. We gratefully acknowledge John’s service as well as the service of his team of editors since 2009—Debbie MacInnis, Ann L. McGill, and Baba Shiv.
  
  
• Mary Frances Luce is the Thomas A. Finch Jr. Professor of Marketing at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. Professor Luce’s expertise is in consumer behavior, medical decision-making, and the effects of negative emotion on decision behavior. Her teaching interests center on health care marketing. Luce received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Duke University and has held previous appointments at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Luce’s research has appeared in such publications as Journal of Consumer Research, Health Psychology, Management Science, and Marketing Science. She also co-authored Emotional Decisions: Tradeoff Difficulty and Coping in Consumer Choice. In 2003, she was Co-Chair of the Association for Consumer Research Conference, and she served as an associate editor of the Journal of Consumer Research for many years. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Marketing Science Institute.
  
  
• Ann L. McGill is the Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing, and Behavior Science at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Professor McGill’s research focus is consumer and manager decision making, with special emphasis causal reasoning, consumer evaluations of products and services consumed alone or with others, the influence of freedom of choice on outcome satisfaction, and product and brand anthropomorphism. McGill has held teaching positions at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and New York University. Besides teaching and advising, McGill is currently an editor of the Journal of Consumer Research and in 2008, she was Co-Chair of the Association for Consumer Research Conference. McGill won the 2005 McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Chicago. She received a BBA with high distinction from the University of Michigan, an MBA and a PhD from Chicago Booth.
  
  
  
  
• Laura Peracchio is Professor of Marketing at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Professor Peracchio received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and a dual BA and BSE from the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Laura’s areas of research interest are focused on consumer information processing including food and nutrition issues, visual persuasion, and language and culture. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and Journal of Advertising.Peracchio is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology and has served as President of the Society for Consumer Psychology. She was awarded the Society for Consumer Psychology’s Inaugural Distinguished Service Award and research awards from the American Marketing Association, the Marketing Science Institute, and the Journal of Consumer Research. Professor Peracchio’s teaching focuses on nonprofit marketing, social and public policy issues, and consumer behavior.
  
  
• The Policy Board was very impressed with the proposal submitted by Professors Luce, McGill, and Peracchio. They are all highly respected scholars and long-time contributors to JCR and to the consumer research community more broadly. McGill is currently an editor of JCR, and all three have served as associate editors and members of the JCR Editorial Review Board. The team brings great energy to the editorial position, and under their direction we expect to see the Journal’s influence broaden and strengthen among researchers interested in all aspects of consumption behavior. In addition, the team has excellent ideas for promoting interdisciplinary research within the Journal. The field of consumer research will continue to develop in important ways under this team’s scholarly leadership.
  
  
• The JCR Policy Board includes representatives of eleven scholarly organizations. Current members of the Policy Board are Itamar Simonson (American Marketing Association), Rob Kozinets (American Anthropological Association), Linda L. Price (American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences), Barbara Bickart (American Association for Public Opinion Research), Juliet Schor (American Sociological Association), Michel Wedel (American Statistical Association), John Lynch (Association for Consumer Research), Leigh McAlister (INFORMS), Ronald Faber (International Communication Association), Durairaj Maheswaran (Society for Consumer Psychology), and Norbert Schwarz (Society for Personality and Social Psychology).