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Dear colleagues,

ACR members are invited to help identify potential candidates for the ACR Early Career Award for Contributions to Consumer Research. This award will be presented at the Awards Luncheon at ACR 2013 to be held in October in Chicago. The award, launched in 2010, is given annually to honor the contributions of one or more consumer behavior researchers who received their PhD between 5 and 8 years ago. Last year’s winner was Jonah Berger. Details of the process for conferring this award are as follows.

Selection Process: Each year, a panel of five ACR members is appointed by the ACR President to serve as a selection committee. The panel will solicit nominations from the ACR membership, and select one or more recipients of the award for their scholarly contributions to the field of consumer research. All nominees require a nomination letter from someone not serving on the selection committee Criteria to be used to determine contribution include innovation, methodological rigor and the potential to substantially advance our understanding of consumer behavior. Once nominated, the nominee will remain in active consideration for the award for three successive years. That is, a nominee in one year will automatically be included in the consideration set for the subsequent two years without the need for re-nomination.

Eligibility: Recipients of this award must be ACR members in good standing and should have obtained their doctoral degree between five and eight years prior to the year of the award. For example, for the award presented at the 2013 ACR conference, recipients must have received their PhD sometime between 2005 and 2008.

Nominations: To submit a nomination for the ACR Early Career Award for Contributions to Consumer Research, nominators should provide:

• A letter of nomination (two pages maximum length; self-nominations are also acceptable). The nomination letter must come from someone not serving on the nomination committee.
• A current vita for the nominated scholar
• No more than three reprints representative of the nominee’s contributions.
• All material needs to be submitted electronically.

Nominees will automatically be re-considered for the award for the two years subsequent to their initial nomination if they do not win the award.

This year’s selection committee consists of Rebecca Hamilton, Joan Meyers-Levy, Joe Nunes, Hope Schau, and Patti Williams. ACR members are requested to help identify potential candidates for the award by sending nominations to the chair of the committee, Joan Meyers-Levy (jmeyers@umn.edu) before March 30, 2013.

Thank you for your input on this important award.