Mentor’s Award Announcement
Please join DocSIG in congratulating Anat Keinan (Boston University) as the 2025 AMA DocSIG “Mathew Joseph” Mentor Award recipient! This award recognizes one scholar whose enduring contributions to the mentorship of doctoral students have profoundly shaped marketing scholarship.
Anat Keinan’s research interests include Branding, Symbolic Consumption, Consumer Well-Being, Luxury Marketing, Consumer Self-Control, Authenticity, the Consumption of Experiences, Fairness and Ethics in Marketing, and Ethical Consumption. She received her Ph.D. in Marketing, with distinction, from
Columbia Business School. Professor Keinan received the Ferber Award for her research on collectable experiences, and the AMA Erin Anderson Award for Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor. Her research was selected for the New York Time Year in Ideas issue and seven of her papers were recognized as
the Journal of Consumer Research best paper award finalists. Her research was selected for several JCR Research Curations including “Products as Signals,” “Meaningful Choice,” and “Behavioral Pricing.”
The award was presented to Anat Keinan at the DocSIG Mentor’s Breakfast at the 2025 Winter Academic Conference in Phoenix, AZ on Saturday, February 15, 7 am.
A special thank you to the committee faculty (Alex Zablah, Jianan Wu, Ahreum Maeng, and Carol Jones) and student (Xiaoying Feng, Anuja Bhattacharjya, and Sameed Khan) members.
DocSIG thanks Mathew Joseph in his continued efforts as the group’s faculty mentor in sponsoring this award.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
2025 DocSIG “Mathew Joseph” Mentor Award
DocSIG invites its doctoral student members to nominate a scholar for the 2025 DocSIG Mathew Joseph Mentorship Award by Tuesday, Dec. 3rd at 5 PM ET
The AMA Doctoral Student Special Interest Group (DocSIG) is pleased to receive nominations for the 2025 DocSIG “Mathew Joseph” Mentor Award. Recipients of this award are recognized as distinguished mentors for their extensive contributions to doctoral students’ careers.
Marketing professors who provide outstanding mentorship and meet the following criteria may be nominated for the 2025 DocSIG “Mathew Joseph” Mentor Award:
• Nominators (those submitting the application) must be a current doctoral student enrolled in an AACSB-accredited Ph.D. program in marketing or business administration-marketing, and
• Nominators (everyone contributing a recommendation to the package) must be a current member of the AMA Doctoral Student Special Interest Group
• Nominees must be marketing professors who have served at least five years as faculty, and
• Nominees must provide outstanding mentorship beyond what is expected for their position.
To submit a nomination, please provide a letter outlining the nominee’s qualification for the award. This letter should detail how the nominee has served as an outstanding mentor to doctoral students, including specific mentoring activities, the number of doctoral students advised, mentoring programs, service to the broader doctoral student community etc. Deadline is Tuesday, Dec. 3rd at 5 PM ET.
After the nomination deadline passes, members of the award committee will individually review and rank applications. The award committee will be composed of a mix of distinguished faculty and current DocSIG leadership and will not include faculty members from universities of nominees.
The award will be presented at the 2025 Winter Academic Conference in Phoenix, AZ. Ideally, the award recipient will be recognized and receive the award in person. Thus, the recipient of the 2025 DocSIG “Mathew Joseph” Mentor Award is highly encouraged to attend the conference.
Immediate past winners include Alex Zablah (University of Tennessee, 2024), Maura Scott (Arizona State University, 2023), and Mark Houston (Texas Christian University, 2021).
Please submit your nomination to Julia van de Sandt (Chair; julia.vandesandt@grad.moore.sc.edu) and Ishita Nagpal (Chair-Elect, inagpal1@gsu.edu) as well as any comments, questions, or concerns.
Access the nomination details here.