Ranked as one of the top 50 most prolific scholars (out of 2,257) in the leading marketing journals from 1982-2006; source: Seggie and Griffith (2009), “What Does It Take to Get Promoted in Marketing Academia?  Understanding Exceptional Publication Productivity in the Leading Marketing Journals,” Journal of Marketing, 72 (January), 122-132.

Ranked as one of the top 10 most published consumer researchers in the Journal of Consumer Research for the 25-year period of 1977-2002; source: West, Ford, Magnini, LaTour, and Polonsky (2008), “A Backward Glance of Who and What Marketing Scholars Have Been Researching, 1977-2002,” Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, 334-338.

Invited Consortium Faculty Member, 43^rd Annual American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium, University of Missouri, 2008

Invited Participant, Aspen Institute, Stakeholder Marketing Consortium: Beyond the 4 P’s and the Customer, September, 2007

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Consumer Research (2005)

Recipient of the S. Watson and Elizabeth Dunn Award for Excellence in Advertising Research, University of Illinois, 2004

Received the Recognition of Fellow in the Society for Consumer Psychology, 2004

Winner, 1999 Harold H. Maynard Award, for "Rediscovering Satisfaction," co-authored with Susan Fournier, as "the most significant contribution to marketing theory and thought" published in the Journal of Marketing in 1999 (editor, David Stewart)

Keynote Speaker, 30th Annual Albert Haring Symposium, Indiana University, April, 2000

Consortium Faculty Member, 24th, 34th, 37th, and 43rd Annual American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortiums: University of Florida (1990), University of Southern California (1999), Emory University (2002), and University of Missouri (2008)

Keynote Speaker, Conference: Marketing Illuminations Spectacular, Belfast, Northern Ireland, September, 1997

Winner, Best Paper Award in the Buyer/Consumer Behavior Track of the 1996 American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Conference, "Person-Situation Benefit Segmentation and Selective Attention," (co-authored with S. Ratneshwar, Luk Warlop, and Gail Seeger)

Nominated, Best Article Award for 1992 in the Journal of Retailing: "A Projective Study of Motivations and Meanings of Self-Gifts: Implications for Retail Management," 68 (2), 122-144 (co-authored with Michelle DeMoss and Ronald J. Faber)

Finalist, Best Article Award for 1991-1993 in the Journal of Consumer Research: "A Meaning-Based Model of Advertising Experiences," 19 (3), 317-338 (co-authored with Claus Buhl)

Honorable Mention (placing second out of nine), 15th Annual Robert Ferber Award Competition, involving dissertation-based articles in the Journal of Consumer Research: "Levels of Subjective Comprehension in Advertising Processing and Their Relations to Ad Perceptions, Attitudes, and Memory," 18 (4), 411-424, 1992

Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award, University of Florida College of Business Administration, 1991

Outstanding Achievement and Performance Award, University of Florida, 1991

Winner, Best Article Award for 1986-1988 in the Journal of Consumer Research: "Consumer Research and Semiotics: Exploring the Morphology of Signs, Symbols, and Significance," 13 (2), 196-213; among the 32 most cited articles from the JCR since its inception in 1974 (according to Cote et al. 1991, JCR, 18 (3), 402-410)

Consortium Fellow from Indiana University, 21st Annual American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium, Notre Dame University, 1986

Research Fellowship, Indiana University, 1986

Schuyler F. Otteson Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Indiana University School of Business, 1985

Passed with Distinction, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams, Indiana University, 1985

Academic Fellowship, Indiana University, 1983-1986

Graduated with Double Honors, English & Philosophy, Indiana University, 1974