Dr. Ozum Zor
Assistant Professor
Marketing
Office: BSB 440
Phone: (856) 225-6246
Ph.D., Rutgers Business School
Dr. Ozum Zor joined the Rutgers School of Business–Camden in 2020. She completed her Ph.D. in Marketing at Rutgers Business School–Newark, Master of Business and Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Gazi University in Turkey.
Dr. Zor’s research combines large-scale datasets and experimental designs to understand consumer responses (e.g., engagement, sharing, following, and purchasing) to real-time effects (e.g., time of day and day of week). In a related stream of work, she studies consumer responses to brand communications, contributing to theory in sustainability and cause-related marketing. Her work has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Current Opinion in Psychology, and the American Psychological Association Handbook of Consumer Psychology.
Research Interests:
Substantive: Real-Time Effects on Consumer Responses, User-Generated Content, Brand Communications
Theoretical: Temporal Effects, Self-Control, Sustainability
Methodology: Experimental Design, Econometric Models, Multi-Method Approaches
Recent Awards & Honors:
2026 – Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University–Camden
2026 – Grant for Summer Research, Rutgers School of Business – Camden
2024 – Grant for Summer Research, Rutgers School of Business – Camden
2022 – Fellow, Early Career Scholar, INFORMS Society for Marketing Science
2022 – Superior Achievement Award for Research, Rutgers School of Business
Courses Taught: Digital Marketing (Undergraduate & Graduate), Digital Content Creation (Undergraduate), Consumer Behavior (Undergraduate)
Representative Publications:
- Ozum Zor, Kihyun Hannah Kim, and Ashwani Monga (2022), “Tweets We Like Aren’t Alike: Time of Day Affects Engagement with Vice and Virtue Tweets,” Journal of Consumer Research, 49(3), 473-495.
- Ashwani Monga, Ozum Zor, and Rafay Siddiqui (2022), “The Role of Time in Consumer Psychology” in APA Handbook of Consumer Psychology, American Psychological Association.
- Ashwani Monga, and Ozum Zor (2019), “Time versus Money,” Current Opinion in Psychology, 26 (April), 28-31.