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Spring 2022 Conference Call for Papers

Date: March 23rd - 25th, 2022
Location: Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe St.
Chicago, IL 60603

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Jeff Clark/MBAA International,
Charter Member and Advisory Council

W. Jeff Clark is probably most well-known for being the long-serving Executive Director of MBAA International, a multidisciplinary business organization famous for its annual Spring conference in Chicago. The MBAA International organization is a founding contributor to the creation of the International Society for Marketing.

John Cherry, Charter Member and Advisory Council

John Cherry (D.B.A., Southern Illinois University, 1996) is Emeritus Professor of Marketing at Southeast Missouri State University, having joined the faculty at Southeast in Fall 2000. His professional experience is in banking, secondary marketing, real estate and consumer lending, and other service sector areas.

Linda Farrell, Charter Member, Founding Board and Co-chair of the Spring 2022 ISM Conference

Linda Ferrell is the John Roth Family Faculty Fellow of Marketing and Business Ethics. She served on the faculty at Belmont University, University of New Mexico, University of Wyoming, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, and University of Tampa. She is immediate past president of the Academy of Marketing Science and past president of the Marketing Management Association.

O.C. Farrell, Charter Member
and Co-chair of the Spring 2022 ISM Conference

O.C. Ferrell is the James T. Pursell, Sr. Eminent Scholar in Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethical Organizational Cultures at Auburn University. He has served on the faculty at Belmont University, the University of New Mexico, University of Wyoming, Colorado State University, University of Memphis, Texas A&M University, University of Michigan, Illinois State University, and Southern Illinois University.

Peter Gordon, Charter Member and Founding Board

Peter Gordon recently retired from Southeast Missouri State University as Professor after more than 40 years of service. Dr. Gordon was the founding President of what is now the North American Management Society., served as President of the Marketing Management Association and what is now the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators and was Co-Editor of AMA summer and winter proceedings for 20 years.

Stacey Hills, Charter Member

Stacey Hills, Ph.D. received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Marketing and a Master of Business Administration degree in New Product Development and Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Studies from Russell Sage College.

Frederick Hoyt, Charter Member

Dr. Frederick B. Hoyt , an Emeritus Associate Professor of Business Administration, was a member of the Illinois Wesleyan faculty from 1988 until he semi-retired in 2019. Professor Hoyt has also been an officer in practitioner and educator groups.

Eliane Karsaklian, Charter Member,
Founding Board, and Vice-President Elect

Eliane Karsaklian, Ph.D., has lived and worked in a number of countries during her career and mastered five languages, giving her extensive knowledge and experience in negotiation techniques and intercultural relationships.

Lou Pelton, Charter Member

Lou Pelton (Ph.D., University of Mississippi) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Logistics at the University of North Texas. Dr. Pelton has published more than 100 research articles in prominent journals and inter/national conference proceedings.

Judy Wiles, Charter Member and Founding Board

Dr. Wiles served as President and on the board of directors for international academic organizations, including MBAA International and the Marketing Management Association. She served as chair of the Marketing Committee for Optimist International in 2010-11.

Rama Yelkur, Charter Member,
Founding Board, and Inaugural ISM President

Rama Yelkur is the Dean of the College of Business and Professor of Marketing at Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Yelkur is the past chair of the Women Administrators in Management Education Affinity Group of AACSB International and has organized programming to develop leadership among women and minorities.