Mary C. Gilly is Professor Emerita of Marketing and Associate Dean for Research PhD Program at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas; her M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas; and her Ph.D. from the University of Houston. At UCI, Dr. Gilly has served as Senior Associate Dean, Associate Dean, Director of the Ph.D. Program, Faculty Chair in the School of Business, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Chair of the Academic Senate for the campus. She was elected Chair of the UC Academic Council and served at the UC Office of the President from 2013 through 2015. She has been on the faculties of Texas A&M University and Southern Methodist University and has been a visiting professor at the Madrid Business School and Georgetown University.
Professor Gilly has been a member of the American Marketing Association since 1975 and has served that organization in a number of capacities, including Marketing Education Council, President, Co-Chair of the 1991 AMA Summer Educators' Conference, and member and chair of the AMA-Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award Committee. She has served as Academic Director for the Association for Consumer Research. Professor Gilly has published her research on international, cross-cultural, and consumer behavior topics in Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing, California Management Review, and other venues. In 2011, she received the Williams-Qualls-Spraten Multicultural Mentoring Award of Excellence. In 2018, she was inducted into the PhD Project Hall of Fame and is a 2019 Fellow of the American Marketing Association.
