Dr Aaron Ahuvia
Dr. Aaron Ahuvia is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Business and the most widely published and cited academic expert on non-interpersonal love. He has published more than 100 academic papers and conference presentations, and his research has been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Glamour. He has appeared on public radio talk shows as well as popular television shows such as the Oprah Winfrey Show. Dr. Ahuvia received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan (1985) and a PhD in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management (1993). He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor’s Ross School of Business in 1992 before moving to the Dearborn campus in 1999, where he has won awards for research and teaching. He also holds an appointment at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. His book The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are, was recently published by Little, Brown Spark.