Cynthia and Douglas Crocker Endowed Professor in Business
Professor Sullivan's research focuses mostly on marketing strategy, including some very new analyses of customer preferences for autonomous vehicles. Some of her published research has been in multiple channels of communic ation, which includes one of the first papers to examine the omnichannel phenomenon and which really propelled her interest in engaging customers wherever they want to be. She has presented her research at several academic conferences and her publications can be found in various business journals including Journal of Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing. She has also received Best Paper awards for her research on global distribution and supply chain alliances.
Her teaching covers many aspects of marketing strategy including multinational and global marketing, biotech marketing, international channel strategy, and purchasing and supply chain management. At Northern Illinois University, Professor Sullivan teaches marketing strategy (undergraduate), global marketing (undergraduate and graduate), content marketing (graduate) and buyer behavior (undergraduate). Her classes are both online and on campus.
In addition to her research and teaching, Professor Sullivan has work and consulting experience in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG), grocery wholesaling and food service industries.
She currently serves on the board of the Marketing Management Association (MMA) as well as the editorial review board of the Marketing Management Journal. Sullivan enjoys serving in varying capacities with the Ph.D. Project which encourages and mentors students of color as they work on their doctoral degrees. At NIU, she is the chair of the Department of Marketing Curriculum Committee and is the assistant chair on the College of Business Curriculum Committee. She is the faculty advisor for two student groups: Women in Business Professions, and the Hispanic Business Student Association. At the university-level, she serves on the University Assessment Panel and is an alumna of the Emerging Faculty Leadership Program. She is also an Authorized Departmental Representative for the Institutional Review Board at NIU.
Professor Sullivan is married and has two sons, one in college and one in high school. She volunteers her personal time with her youngest son’s extracurricular activities as well as at her church. She enjoys reading 19th-century English literature and “old-school” murder mysteries.
815-753-6285
usullivan@niu.edu
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