Professor Emeritus of Marketing Bobby Calder joined the Kellogg faculty in 1975 and he was named the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing in 1993. He has held an endowed chair at Kellogg since 1986 when he was named the A. Montgomery Ward Professor of Marketing. Previously, he taught marketing, organizational behavior, behavioral science and consumer psychology, and social psychology at the University of Illinois and at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also director of Organizational Research for National Analysis, a division of Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He is also a professor of Journalism and Media in the Medill School and a professor of psychology at Northwestern.

Prof. Calder's research focuses on the analysis of consumer behavior, media consumption, and marketing strategy. His work has covered the health care, food, electronics, and financial services industries. He has published more than 50 articles in leading academic journals and contributed to several books.

Prof. Calder has served on committees for the Marketing Science Institute and the Advertising Research Foundation and is past chairman of the policy board of the Journal of Consumer Research.  He is a frequent speaker at company and association meetings and a consultant to a number of major U.S. businesses, such as AT&T, General Motors, and Coca Cola Foods, as well as not-for-profit organizations.

• MA, 1970, Social Pyschology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• BA, 1966, Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
• Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Professor, Weinberg College of Arts of Sciences, Northwestern University
• A. Montgomery Ward Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 8/31/1993
• Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 8/31/1986
• Associate Professor, Weinberg College of Arts of Sciences, Northwestern University, 8/31/1978
• Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 8/31/1978
• Associate Professor of Marketing and Organizational Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 8/31/1975
• Associate Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 8/31/1974
• Director of Organizational Research, National Analysts, 8/31/1974
• Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 8/31/1973
• Postdoctoral Fellow, L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, Social Psychology Program, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 8/31/1971
• U.S. Public Health Service Predoctoral Research Fellow, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 8/31/1970
• Co-Director, MMM Program, Northwestern University

• Best Paper Award Journal of Advertising Research
• Most Downloaded Paper Award, Marketing Science Institute (MSI, 2014

• Editorial Board, Journal of Advertising Research, 2005-2014