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Saran Stewart is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education, where she has been teaching since 2020. She currently serves as Director of Academic Affairs at UConn Hartford, a position she assumed in August 2022, and as Director of Global Education. Previously, she held the role of Deputy Dean of the College of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies. With more than 13 years of experience as a higher education administrator, professor, and scholar-activist, Stewart earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education with a concentration in Diversity and Higher Learning and specialization in International Education Development from the University of Denver. She also holds an M.A. in International Administration and a B.A. in English and International Studies from the University of Miami, as well as an M.B.A. in Marketing from Barry University.

Stewart's research specializations encompass access and equity, diversity, critical and inclusive pedagogy, postcolonial theories in education, decolonizing methodologies, post- and diaspora studies, and international and comparative student affairs and higher education administration. She utilizes mixed methodologies, including qualitative and quantitative approaches. In 2024, she received the Dr. Perry A. Zirkel Distinguished Teaching Award from the Neag School of Education, recognizing her commitment to fostering inclusive, anti-racist, equity-minded learning environments. Stewart serves as Co-Chairperson of the Higher Education Special Interest Group (HESIG) since 2024 and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education. Her scholarly contributions include the article 'Black Women Academics’ Hypervisibility and Hyperinvisibility in British and Postcolonial British Caribbean Higher Education Institutions' published in Comparative Education Review in 2025, her 2013 dissertation 'Everything in di Dark Muss Come to Light: A Postcolonial Analysis of Educational Leadership in Jamaica' from the University of Denver, 'Bridging the Gap Between Access and Persistence in Higher Education in the Caribbean: A Call for Institutional Action' in 2017, and a chapter on plantation pedagogies in a 2023 Sage publication.