AMA Announces New Editorial Team for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

The American Marketing Association (AMA) and the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M) Editor Search Committee—comprised of Rajan Varadarajan (Chair), Ron Hill, Shintaro Okazaki, Linda Price, Debra Scammon, and Will Wilkie—are pleased to announce the selection of Josh Wiener (Oklahoma State University), Scot Burton (University of Arkansas), and Pam Ellen (Georgia State University) as editors of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. The term of the new editorial team will begin on July 1, 2017.

Josh Wiener is Professor of Marketing and Head of the School of Marketing and International Business at Oklahoma State University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has previously worked for the FTC. Josh has been serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing for the past ten years. His research has been published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Affairs, and Journal of Macromarketing, among other journals. His research has been funded by federal agencies such as the NSF, HHS, NIDA, and DOD, as well as state agencies such as the Oklahoma Office of Tobacco Prevention.

Scot Burton is Distinguished Professor and Tyson Research Chair in Food and Consumer Products Retailing, Department of Marketing, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas–Fayetteville. His primary research interests include consumer well-being, public policy concerns, and retail consumer promotion issues. He has published more than 100 refereed articles in a variety of journals in marketing, psychology, and health, including the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Applied Psychology, Tobacco Control, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and MIS Quarterly. Two of his coauthored articles have received the Thomas C. Kinnear JPP&M outstanding article award. Scot has also received the JPP&M outstanding reviewer award on two occasions. He has served as a special external consultant to the FDA Risk Communications Advisory Committee.

Pam Scholder Ellen is Associate Professor of Marketing in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Her research addresses perceptual biases—specifically, how messages, claims, and labels bias consumer beliefs, attitudes, and behavior, particularly as they relate to public policy and social issues such as sustainability, corporate social responsibility, privacy, and health. Her research has been published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, among other journals. She is Past President of the AMA Academic Council.