Assistant Professor
Joan Ball has extensive professional experience in public relations and marketing communications working directly and consulting for professional services firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Standard and Poors and Zurich North America. She was a corporate spokesperson for Consolidated Edison in New York City and at the Indian Point 2 Nuclear Power facility. Prior to teaching at St. John’s University, she taught at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Marist College. She earned her Ph.D. in international business management from the International School of Management, her M.S. in Organizational Leadership from Nyack College and her B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany.
Dr. Ball’s research explores the unique advertising and marketplace experiences described by consumers in light of personal identity and sociocultural environment with a special interest in the shifting realities among working women as they prioritize work, marriage, motherhood.
Recent Publications:
Ball, J. (2012). Consumer culture and the professional millennial woman: Advancing Mick and Buhl’s Meaning-based Model of Advertising Experiences. PhD dissertation, International School of Management, Paris, FR.
Ball, J. (2009). The currency of trust: What business leaders can learn from the extreme poor. Ivey Business Journal, September/October 2009. http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_ID=855
Email Dr. Ball at ballj@stjohns.edu