Saran Stewart University of Connecticut, USA
Saran Stewart, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Neag School of Education as well as the Director of Academic Affairs at the University of Connecticut, Hartford campus. She currently teaches courses related to decolonization and international higher education, inclusion and equity in higher education and student affairs, as well as transformational leadership and critical race theory in higher education. In the past, she has taught comparative higher education, organization and administration, resource management and research methods courses. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. Stewart’s research examines issues in comparative education, decolonizing methodologies, critical/ inclusive pedagogy and access and equity issues in higher education. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow and the recipient of multiple awards including the 2019 Vice Chancellor Award for Excellence from the University of the West Indies and the 2018 African Diaspora Emerging Scholar award by the Comparative and International Education Society. She has over 50 publications including the following edited books, Decolonizing Qualitative Methodologies For and By The Caribbean; Race, Equity And The Learning Environment: The Global Relevance Of Critical And Inclusive Pedagogies In Higher Education; Each One, Teach One: Parental Involvement And Family Engagement In Jamaica’s Education System: Lessons Learned; and Black Liberation in Higher Education: Considerations For Research and Practice. Most recently, she co-edited and co-authored a special issue in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education titled, Black Deprivation, Black Resistance and Black Liberation: The Influence of #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) on Higher Education.
