Dr. Linda Kidwell is a Chair/ Professor of Accounting, teacher and researcher, who aims to prepare students to be ethical professional accountants and to better understand ethical business behavior and its correlates.

Much of her research is directed at accounting ethics and accounting ethics education, as well as governmental accounting.

She studied efforts to combat corruption in public procurement during her Fulbright year in Romania, and researched factors associated with followers of unethical leaders. She also worked on developing a stakeholder model of public sector financial reporting standards.