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Roy Vernon Scott (born December 26, 1927) is a Professor Emeritus of history at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi, who specialized in agricultural and railroad studies in the American South and Midwest. In 1997, he co-authored ''Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon'', a study of Sam Walton's Wal-Mart retail giant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roy Vernon Scott and Sandra Stringer Vance, Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon )〕 ==Early life== Scott was born to Roy J. Scott and the former Edna Dodson in Wrights, an unincorporated community in Greene County in west-central Illinois. He served from 1946-1948 in the United States Army Air Corps, organized in 1947 into the United States Air Force. In 1952, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He subsequently received his Master of Arts and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1953 and 1957, respectively.〔 p. 404.〕 Prior to his tenure at Mississippi State, he was from 1957-1958 a faculty member at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, formerly known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Between 1959 and 1960, he taught at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. In 1958, he received the Everett E. Edwards Award from the Agricultural History Society for the best paper submitted by a graduate student for publication in the journal ''Agricultural History''.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Everett E. Edwards Award )〕 Scott was on the MSU faculty from 1960-1998, when he retired as professor emeritus. He was also the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of History from 1978-1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=e-library at Iowa State University )〕 In 1989, Scott was elected president of the Mississippi Historical Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mississippi Historical Society )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Vernon Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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