The Society for Consumer Psychology has selected Dr. Thomas Kramer to the new editorial team for the Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP). Dr. Kramer, Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Business Programs at the UCR School of Business, will serve as a Co-Editor. 

Dr. Kramer, together with the rest of the editorial team, will oversee the Journal’s publication for a three-year term beginning in January 2021.

JCP is one of only 50 business journals,and one of 5 marketing journals, worldwide that the Financial Times uses to compile its FT research rank, which is included in graduate school rankings. 

Dr. Kramer is currently an Associate Editor at both the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and has served on the editorial review boards for both. In 2018, he served as Issue Co-Editor for the Journal of the Association of Consumer Research issue on “The Science of Extraordinary Beliefs.” He also joined the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of International Marketing in 2019.

An active participant in service to the academic community, Professor Kramer has organized national and international conferences, including 2019’s China Marketing International Conference, held in Guangzhou. He is also the co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium of the 2019 Association for Consumer Research conference, and is a member of the program committee for the 2020 conference of the Society for Consumer Psychology.

Kramer received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and his MBA and Bachelor’s degrees from Baruch College, CUNY. Prior to joining the University of California, Riverside in 2015, he was a faculty member at Baruch College from 2003 to 2010, and at the University of South Carolina from 2010 to 2015. He was appointed associate dean for the undergraduate program for UCR’s School of Business in 2019.