She completed her PhD in marketing at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, in 2003. Her research focuses on compulsive buying, behavioral pricing, retailing, and electronic commerce. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing, and Journal of Business Research, among others. She has won an award for the best dissertation proposal in behavioral pricing from the Fordham University Pricing Center (2001), and the best paper award in the Pricing and Retailing Track (2006 Winter American Marketing Association Educators' Conference). Prior to academia, Dr. Kukar-Kinney conducted marketing research for a consulting firm in Slovenia.