Dr. Pamela Perrewé stands among the most decorated faculty members ever in the FSU College of Business. In 2018, she became the first – and still the only – from the college to win the university’s Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Award, the highest honor faculty members can bestow on a colleague. Perrewé, who retired as the Haywood & Betty Taylor Eminent Scholar in 2021, earned an international reputation for research in business and human resources management, particularly related to job stress, coping and organizational politics.

She served on more than 100 doctoral dissertation committees, published more than 130 journal articles and contributed to more than 40 books. She served as associate dean for graduate programs, chair of the Department of Management and long-time director of the Center for Human Resource Management. She also served as president of the Southern Management Association and mentored or advocated for all FSU student athletes in her role as the university’s faculty athletics representative to the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA.

Perrewé earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Purdue University and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in management from the University of Nebraska.