Dr. Elnora W. Stuart is Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean of the George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics at the University of South Carolina (USC) Upstate. Prior to joining USC, she was Professor of Marketing at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Professor of Marketing and the BP Egypt Oil Professor of Management Studies at the American University in Cairo, and on the faculty of the University of South Carolina. She has also been a regular visiting professor at Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain. She got her BA in Speech/Theatre from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and both a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication and a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of South Carolina. Dr Stuart’s research has been published in major academic journals including the Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. For over 25 years she has served as a consultant for numerous businesses and not-for-profit organizations in Egypt and the United States.