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Career Highlights:
Fowler, Kendra (2020), “Innovative Service Environments,” in Eileen Bridges & Kendra Fowler, (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Service Research Insights and Ideas, (pp. 148-166), Routledge.
Steven W. Rayburn, Sidney T. Anderson, and Kendra Fowler (2020), “Service Process Design and Management,” in Eileen Bridges & Kendra Fowler, (Eds.),The Routledge Handbook of Service Research Insights and Ideas, (pp. 227-240) Routledge.
Thomas, Veronica L., Kendra Fowler, and Christina Saenger (2020), “Celebrity Influence on Word of Mouth: The Interplay of Power States and Power Expectations,” Marking Letters, 31(1), 105-120.
Fowler, Kendra and Veronica L. Thomas (2019), “Beyond Endorsements: The Effect of Celebrity Creative Directors on Consumers’ Attitudes toward the Advertisement,” Psychology & Marketing, 36(11), 1003 -1013.
Fowler, Kendra and Veronica L. Thomas (2019), “Pay-What-You-Want with Charitable Giving Positively Impacts Retailers,” Journal of Services Marketing, 33(3), 273-284.
Fowler, Kendra, Veronica L. Thomas, and Christina Saenger (2019) “Enhancing Students’ Marketing Information Literacy,” Marketing Education Review, 29(1), 52-64.
Fowler, Kendra and Eileen Bridges (2017), “Business News as a Source of Information Literacy in Marketing,” Marketing Education Review, 27(2), 97-103.
Thomas, Veronica L., and Kendra Fowler (2016), "Examining the Impact of Brand Transgressions on Consumers' Perceptions of Celebrity Endorsers" Journal of Advertising, 45(4), 377-390.
Fowler, Kendra (2016), “Exploring the Use of Managerial Intuition in Retail Site Selection,” Service Industries Journal, 36(5), 183-199.
Fowler, Kendra and Veronica L. Thomas (2015), “Creating a Professional Blog: The Impact of Student Learning Styles on Perceptions of Learning,” Journal of Marketing Education, 37(3), 181 -189.
Fowler, Kendra and Veronica L. Thomas, (2015), “A Content Analysis of Male Roles in Television Advertising: Do Traditional Roles Still Hold?” Journal of Marketing Communications, 21(5), 356-371.
Thomas, Veronica L. and Kendra Fowler (2015), “More Isn't Always Better: Exploring the Influence of Familiarity When Using Multiple Celebrity Endorsers,” Journal of Promotion Management, 21(2), 207-222.
Youngstown State University Research Professorship 2015-2016, 2018-2019
“Best in Track” in Integrated Marketing Communications, Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Conference, 2018
“Best Faculty Paper” American Marketing Association International Collegiate Conference, 2015
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