AMA Foundation Awards and Scholarships recognize marketing visionaries who have elevated the field and support the next generation of marketers who will transform the profession.
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Academic Awards
For marketing visionaries in the classroom who are impacting the industry, empowering future generations and ensuring marketing research impacts public good.
AMA Fellows Award
Recognizes marketing academics who have made significant contributions to the research, theory and practice of marketing, and to the service and activities of the AMA over a prolonged period of time, while providing regular opportunities for fellowship and discussion.
AMA-Irwin-McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award
Honors a long-standing leader in marketing who has made extensive contributions to marketing education and the marketing discipline in general.
Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award
Honors distinguished academics and practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on advancing the evolving profession of marketing research over an extended period of time.
Eli Jones Article Award for Long-Term Impact in Sales Research
This award is made annually for a paper published in a refereed journal that has made a significant long-term impact on the theory and practice of professional selling and sales management.
Erin Anderson Award for an Emerging Female Mentor and Scholar
Recognizes emerging female marketing scholars and mentors, while honoring and celebrating the life of Erin Anderson.
H. Paul Root/Marketing Science Institute Award
Recognizes the Journal of Marketing article that has made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing within the calendar year.
Hans B. Thorelli Award
Recognizes the Journal of International Marketing article that has made the most significant and long-term contribution to international marketing theory or practice.
John A. Howard/AMA Doctoral Dissertation Award
Recognizes the excellent marketing related doctoral dissertation for a given year.
The Leonard L. Berry Marketing Book Award
Recognizes books whose innovative ideas have had significant impact on marketing and related fields.
Louis W. Stern Award
Recognizes the outstanding article, in a widely recognized and highly respected refereed journal, which has made a significant contribution to the literature on marketing and channels distribution.
Paul E. Green Award
Recognizes the best article in the Journal of Marketing Research that demonstrates the greatest potential to contribute significantly to the practice of marketing research.
Robert J. Lavidge Global Marketing Research Award
Recognizes marketing practitioners or educators from anywhere in the world, who have demonstrated success in implementing a research procedure with practical implications within the past five years.
Robert Lusch Early Career Research Award
This award aims to recognize a scholar who has published an article early in his/her career in an AMA Journal (Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Marketing, or Journal of Public Policy & Marketing).
S. Tamer Cavusgil Award
Recognizes the Journal of International Marketing article that has made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of international marketing management within the calendar year.
Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award
Recognizes the Journal of Marketing article that makes the most significant contribution to marketing theory and thought within the calendar year.
Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing Award
Recognizes the best article published in the Journal of Marketing that has made long-term contributions to the field of marketing.
Thomas C. Kinnear/Journal of Public Policy & Marketing Award
Honors the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing article that makes the most significant contribution to the understanding of marketing and public policy issues within the most recent three-year time period.
V. Kumar Doctoral Student Mentorship Award
Recognizes academics in the field of marketing who are productive scholars and who have been instrumental in developing doctoral students in marketing.
V. Seenu Srinivasan Young Scholar Award in Quantitative Marketing
Recognizes important contributions by a young scholar to methodology development in quantitative marketing.
Valuing Diversity Ph.D. Scholarships
Seeks to widen the opportunities for underrepresented populations to attend marketing doctoral programs.
Varadarajan Award for Early Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research
Honors a marketing faculty member who has completed ten or fewer years after receipt of his/her doctoral degree for his/her contribution to marketing strategy research.
Vijay Mahajan Award
Honors a marketing educator affiliated with an institution of higher learning, who has made sustained contributions to marketing strategy literature over a span of ten or more years.
Weitz-Winer-O’Dell Award
Recognizes the Journal of Marketing Research article that has made the most significant, long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice.
William L. Wilkie “Marketing for a Better World” Award
Honors marketing thinkers who have significantly contributed to our understanding and appreciation for marketing’s potentials to improve our world, and from whose work notable advances have ensued.
Williams-Qualls-Spratlen (WQS) Award
Recognizes world class marketing scholars and mentors of color, while carrying on the legacy of Jerome Williams, Bill Qualls, and Thaddeus Spratlen.
Practitioner Awards
For marketing champions who are moving the industry forward and difference makers who are transforming their organization.
4 Under 40 Emerging Leaders Award
Honors individuals who have already made significant contributions to the field of marketing and its sub-fields, and have demonstrated leadership and continuing service. The program is highly selective, with 4 individuals selected annually.
Chapter Excellence Awards
Recognizes and rewards excellence in AMA professional chapter leadership and operations.
Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award
Honors distinguished academics and practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and sustained impact on advancing the evolving profession of marketing research over an extended period of time.
Higher Education Marketer of the Year Awards
Recognizes individual and teams who show extraordinary leadership and achievement in the field of higher education marketing and are brought to you by the AMA Foundation and its founding sponsor Lipman Hearne.
The Leonard L. Berry Marketing Book Award
Recognizes books whose innovative ideas have had significant impact on marketing and related fields.
Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award
Honors nonprofit marketing professionals’ leadership and achievements in the field of nonprofit marketing.
Ric Sweeney Chapter Volunteer of the Year Award
Honors AMA professional chapter leaders whose contributions have added significantly to the AMA’s goals.
Robert J. Lavidge Global Marketing Research Award
Recognizes marketing practitioners or educators from anywhere in the world, who have demonstrated success in implementing a research procedure with practical implications within the past five years.
Student Scholarships, Awards and Related Programs
For marketing students who are leaders on campus and in the classroom who will continue to impact the industry in the years to come.
Collegiate Scholarships
American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF) scholarships are for marketing students who are leaders on campus and in the classroom. We believe in empowering the next generation of marketers who will make an impact for good and help make our industry more diverse.
Collegiate Awards and Competitions
The AMA Collegiate Chapters Council and Collegiate Chapters division offer active AMA chapters and members numerous opportunities to be recognized for their excellence and assist in the growth of their professional development.
Diversity Leadership Institute
The Diversity Leadership Institute, a program supported by the Diversity Student Leaders Fund, is an experiential, interactive four-day program that brings together an intimate cohort of marketing students from historically disenfranchised and underrepresented communities in the marketing field.
E.G. Chingos
Funds collegiate memberships in the AMA and AMA New York Chapter for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students majoring in marketing at four New York colleges and universities.
Valuing Diversity Ph.D. Scholarships
Seeks to widen the opportunities for underrepresented populations to attend marketing doctoral programs.