Abigail J. Stewart

Abigail J. Stewart is the Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, director of the UM ADVANCE Program, associate dean of the Graduate School, and senior counselor to the provost. She holds degrees from Wesleyan University, the London School of Economics, and Harvard University. She has received the Henry Murray Award in personality psychology and the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award in psychology of women from the American Psychological Association.

Her past professional positions include assistant and associate Professor at Boston University; visiting associate professor at Wesleyan University; founding director of the Henry A. Murray Research Center at Harvard University and of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan, where she also directed the Women’s Studies Program; and associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Stewart has published many scholarly articles and several books on the psychology of women’s lives, personalities, and adaptations 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; a comparative study of women’s movement activism in several national contexts; and research and interventions on gender and science and technology with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. She and her colleagues Janet E. Malley and Danielle LaVaque-Manty edited Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women.