2025 V. Kumar Doctoral Student Mentorship Award

The V. Kumar Doctoral Student Mentorship Award is given biennially at the AMA Winter Academic Conference to recognize academics in the field of marketing who are productive scholars and who have been instrumental in developing doctoral students in marketing.

Eligibility

All scholars who are at a career stage in which they have built a substantial record of impact on doctoral students will be eligible for the award. The nominees should have made significant and recognition-worthy contributions to the advancement of PhD students in marketing and helped create the pipeline of marketing scholars who continue to contribute to the marketing discipline through their research, teaching, and service.

To be eligible, the candidate should:
 

• Have completed their doctorate degree a minimum of fifteen (15) years prior to the nomination year.
• Be recognized as a productive marketing scholar based on service to and publication in leading marketing journals and, specifically, in AMA journals.
• Have a substantial record of training, mentoring, and placing doctoral students.
• Have a substantial record of service to AMA initiatives that have nurtured doctoral student success, such as AMA conferences, the John A. Howard Doctoral Dissertation Award, AMA DocSIG activities, and the PhD Project’s Marketing Doctoral Student Association, as well as attending a number of AMA/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortia and other doctoral consortia or similar activities.
• Additionally, the doctoral students that the scholar has mentored should have contributed to the marketing discipline through their own exemplary service, research and teaching.

Please note that self-nominations are not accepted for this award.