Overview
Keisha Cutright is a Professor of Marketing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Her research explores the psychological drivers of consumer behavior, with particular attention to areas related to personal control, religion, and brand communication. She focuses on the implications of such for both brand-building and consumer well-being. Her work has been published in top-tier academic journals, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing. She currently serves as anAssociate Editor for the Journal of MarketingResearch. Popular accounts of her work have appeared in outlets such as NPR, TheWall Street Journal, NewsWeek, Time, and Fast Company.
Professor Cutright has taught courses in Marketing Management, Branding, and Consumer Behavior and was previously named one of the world’s best 40 b-school professors under the age of 40 by Poets and Quants.Prior to beginning her career in academia, Professor Cutright worked in brand management at Procter and Gamble.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Business Administration
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2024 - Present
Fuqua School of Business
Recent Publications
From believer to buyer: How brands leverage religious values to connect with consumers
Journal Article Journal of Consumer Psychology · October 1, 2025 Aglozo and Cohen (Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2025) synthesize prior work on the influence of religious values on consumer behavior through the frameworks of Schwartz's value theory and moral foundations theory. In this commentary, we extend their work ... Full text CiteBunch of jerks: How brands can benefit by reappropriating insults
Journal Article Journal of Consumer Psychology · October 1, 2025 Brands are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of negative labels from a variety of sources. While sometimes warranted, many of these negative labels feel like unwarranted or uncivil insults. Brands generally respond to such undeserved deg ... Full text CiteReply to Moore et al.: Manipulation adherence and baseline AI attitudes as moderators of the effect of God salience on algorithm aversion.
Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2024 Full text CiteEducation
Duke University ·
2011
Ph.D.
Ohio State University ·
2003
B.S.