Robert Davidson named R.B. Pamplin Professor of Accounting and Information System
Robert Davidson, professor and head of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, was recently named the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Accounting and Information Systems by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
Established in 1994, the R.B. Pamplin Professorship in Accounting and Information Systems is one of several named professorships established with part of the $10 million gift presented to the college by the Robert B. Pamplin family. The professorship supports excellence in education in accounting and information systems.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2017, Davidson is a highly productive and impactful scholar. He has developed significant expertise in the area of corporate corruption and white-collar crime.
Davidson is also an effective classroom instructor, consistently receiving high student evaluation scores. Although he teaches less while serving as department head, he plans to offer a Ph.D. seminar in capital markets next year that has been well received by students in the past.
Before coming to Virginia Tech, Davidson taught at Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University and an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
