Abigail J. Stewart

Abigail J. Stewart is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Stewart has published many scholarly articles and several books, focusing on the psychology of women’s lives, personality, and adaptation to personal and social changes. Her current research, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods, includes comparative analyses of longitudinal studies of educated women’s lives and personalities; a collaborative study of race, gender and generation in the graduates of a Midwest high school; comparative study of women’s movement activism in several national contexts; and research and interventions on institutional change in higher education. She and her colleagues--Janet E. Malley and Danielle LaVaque-Manty--edited a book for the University of Michigan Press based on the experience of early Institutional Transformation grant awardees: Transforming science and engineering: Advancing academic women. It was re-published in paperback in 2010. She is co-author of An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence.

Professor Stewart was Director of the UM ADVANCE Program from 2001-2016, and has served as Associate Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, and the Rackham Graduate School, and holds degrees from Wesleyan University (B.A.), London School of Economics (M.Sc.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.).