Cait Lamberton

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Business Administration (Marketing), University of South Carolina, 2008
• M.B.A, University of South Carolina, 2006
• B.A., English,Wheaton College, Illinois, 1999

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Assistant Professor & Fryear Fellow, Marketing, University of Pittsburgh; 2008-2014
• Associate Professor & Fryear Endowed Chair, Marketing, University of Pittsburgh; 2014-present

Awards and Honors

• Thomas P. Kinnear Award for Best Article in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 2020
• Marketing Science Institute Scholar, 2020
• AMA/EBSCO Respsonible Research in Marketing Award, 2020
• Member, Commission on Reducing Food Waste in the United States, National Academy of Sciences, 2019
• Government/Policy Liaison for the Association for Consumer Research Board, 2018
• Outstanding Senior Editor, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2018
• Lazaridis Prize, American Marketing Association, 2017
• Hunt/Maynard Award for Best Paper in Journal of Marketing, (with Andrew Stephen), 2016
• Affiliated Researcher, Nudge4Solutions Lab, University of Virginia, beginning 2016, 2016
• AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Faculty Fellow, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2016
• Erin Anderson Award, Given to the American Marketing Association’s Top Emerging Female Scholar and Mentor, 2016
• Poets & Quants “Top 40 Business School Professors under 40”, 2015; Fortune’s “Top 10,”, 2015
• Association for Consumer Research’s Transformative Consumer Research Grant for Emerging, 2014
• Best Reviewer Award, Journal of Consumer Research, 2014
• Honorable Mention, Robert Ferber Award (Award for best dissertation-based paper appearing in the Journal of Consumer Research), 2014
• Early Career Contribution Award, Association for Consumer Research, 2013
• Affiliated Researcher, White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, Sept 2013-May 2014, 2013-2014
• Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar, 2013-2014
• Ben L. Fryrear Faculty Fellow, University of Pittsburgh 2010 – 2016, 2010-2016
• Katz Excellence in Research Award, 2009-2010, 2012-2013, 2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2009-2017
• Teacher of the Year, Katz Graduate School of Business/CBA 2009 – 2010, 2009-2010
• Dean’s Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2008-2017
• Top Undergraduate Teacher in the Marketing Major, University of Pittsburgh, 2008-2009, 2009- 2010, 2012-2013, 2008
• W. Pierce Liles Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, University of South Carolina, 2008
• UMI Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of South Carolina, 2008
• MSI Alden G. Clayton Dissertation Proposal Competition, Honorable Mention, 2007
• George M. Reeves Memorial Fellow, University of South Carolina, 2007
• Centennial Fellow Finalist, University of South Carolina, 2007
• Marketing Science Institute Research Grant #4-1342, Primary Investigator, “The Psychology of Category Design: How Product Groupings Influence Consumer DecisionMaking, Price Sensitivity, and Brand Strength.” (with Kristin Diehl), 2005
• AMA – Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2005
• MSI – JCP Research Competition on “Product Assortment and Variety – Seeking in Consumer Choice,” Honorable Mention (with Kristin Diehl), 2004