Saran Stewart

Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs

Educational Leadership

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Titles:

Professor, (Comparative & International Higher Education)

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., Higher Education, University of Denver
MA, International Administration, University of Miami
MBA, Barry University
BA, English and International Studies, University of Miami

Bio:

Saran Stewart, PhD, is a Professor of Comparative & International Higher Education at the University of Connecticut. She was formerly the Director for Academic Affairs at UConn Hartford and the Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She also served on the research advisory committee for the Caribbean Public Health Agency for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Her areas of specialization are in international and comparative higher education initiative; the experiences of racially and ethnically minoritized students, faculty and staff in education utilizing intersectionality, critical race theory, postcolonial, decolonial and (post)diasporic theories; and teaching and learning in local and global contexts, with regional foci in postcolonial Caribbean countries and their respective ex- colonial European countries. She was appointed as the co- editor for the American Education Research Journal, the flagship journal for the American Educational Research Association, as well as co- chair for the Higher Education Special Interest Group (SIG) for the Comparative and International Education Society. With more than 50 publications, she recently received the Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut.

Upcoming Book

Bristol University Press | Black Women Academics at the Intersections – Race, Gender and Colonial Legacies in British and Caribbean Higher Education, By Saran Stewart

Areas of Expertise:

• Access and equity, diversity; critical and inclusive pedagogy
• Postcolonial theories in education; decolonizing methodologies; post/diaspora
• International and comparative student affairs and higher education administration
• Research methodologies: mixed methodology, qualitative and quantitative methods