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FMU names first two Research Scholar
FROM LOCAL REPORTS
FLORENCE ? Fred R. David, professor of business administration, and E. Lorraine de Montluzin, professor of history, have been named Francis Marion University?s first two board of trustees? Research Scholars.
They were honored at the school?s Friday board meeting.
The Research Scholars designation signifies outstanding scholarly achievements and the promise of continued scholarly activity in the future.
?I am pleased that these two outstanding faculty members are our first two research scholars,? FMU President Fred Carter said. ?Both of them have achieved distinction as prolific researchers and extraordinary professors.?
The appointment as a Research Scholar is for a three-
year term and is renewable, ihe board of trustees? resolution provides that six Research Scholars; would be named ? two during 2002-2003, two during 2003-2(f4,
and two during 2004-2005.
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David is the author of three strategic management textbopks titled ?Strategic Management,? ?Concepts in Strategic Management? and ?Cases in Strategic Management.?	M
in addition to mainstream textbooks, David also is the author of 138 other publications.
A native of Whiteville, N.C., David received a bachelor?s degree in mathematics and a master?s in business administration degree from Wake Forest University before being employed as a bank manager with United Carolina Bank.	?
He received a doctorate in business administration from the
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University of South Carolina in 1981 where he majored in management. A member of the FMU faculty since 1988, David has also taught at Auburn University, Mississippi State University, East Carolina University and USC.
In April, David received FMU?s 2001-2002 Award for Excellence in Research given annually to the best faculty researcher on cam-
pus for the year. David was elected to and served on the Southern Management Association?s Board of Directors for three years and currently serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Advanced Management Journal.
?Being selected as the first faculty person at Francis Marion University to receive the board of trustees Research Scholar Award is the highlight of my professional career,? David said.
De Montluzin, a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century British press history, has published six scholarly books, principally reference works identifying anonymous and pseudonymous contributors to the Anti-Jacobin Review, the Gentleman?s Magazine and the European Magazine.
Four of de Montluzin?s works have been published as electronic books by the Bibliographical
Society of the University of Virginia.
Provided free to scholars around the world, de Montluzin?s electronic databases for the Gentleman?s Magazine and the European Magazine are fully browsable and key-word searchable, offering ?unprecedented access to the contents of two of the most important and wide-ranging English periodicals of the 18th and early 19th centuries,? according to the Bibliographical Society
During the past year, de Montluzin?s three Gentleman?s Magazine databases have collectively accumulated over 56,000 hits from researchers around the globe. ?Making her scholarship available in electronic form has brought it to a far wider audience than would have benefited otherwise,? said David L. Vander
Meulen, vice president of the . Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.
A native of Bay St. Louis, Miss., de Montluzin earned a bachelor?s degree from Newcomb College of Tulane University and master?s and doctoral degrees from Duke University. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
De Montluzin has taught in the History Department at FMU since 1974. She was named the university?s Distinguished Professor of 1987-88 and was presented the FMU Shared Governance Award of 1999-2000.
She was the founding president of the FMU Chapter of the American Association oi University Professors and has served as vice president of th( South Carolina Conference of the AAUP since 1995.