Dr. Jhinuk Chowdhury is an award-winning educator and scholar, who joined the Marketing Department at the University of North Texas in 1989.   He has a doctoral degree in Business Administration (with a Marketing concentration) from the University of Florida.   Dr. Chowdhury has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and, prior to joining the University of North Texas, held managerial positions in the corporate sector. 

Dr. Chowdhury teaches courses related to Global Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Electronic Commerce, and supervises doctoral candidates in the department.  He is a recipient of The President's Council Teaching Award of the University of North Texas, The Outstanding Teaching Award given by the Council of Business Students, and The Pursuit of Excellence in Teaching Award presented by the University Forum on Teaching and Learning.  Additionally, he has been nominated by the University for The Minnie Stevens Piper Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Chowdhury's academic research has been published in various scholarly periodicals including the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising, the Journal of Marketing Theory & Practice, the Journal of Managerial Issues, the Journal of Marketing Management, the Journal of International Consumer Marketing, the Health Marketing Quarterly, the Journal of Business Ethics and the Proceedings of the AMA Educators' Conferences.

Dr. Chowdhury has served in the position of Interim Chair of the Department of Marketing & Logistics.  In addition, he has chaired the UNT College of Business Administration's High Technology Committee and the Marketing Department's Personnel Affairs Committee and has been a member of the department's Promotion & Tenure Committee and the Executive Committee.

Dr. Chowdhury sits on the board of an emerging information technology company, and on the boards of several cultural and non-profit organizations.