Professor & Co-coordinator of Student Affairs in Higher Education at Colorado State University
About
Dr. D-L Stewart (PGPs: he and they) is a professor in the School of Education and co-coordinator of the student affairs in higher education programs and affiliated faculty with the women’s studies program in the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at Colorado State University.
Over the course of his 18-year faculty career, he has focused most intently on the history and philosophy of higher education, as well as institutional systems and structures that affect the postsecondary experiences, growth and development, and success of racially minoritized and queer and trans* students. D-L examines these topics through intersectional, critical, and poststructural frameworks that incorporate ableism, religious hegemony, and classism alongside racism, patriarchy, and queer- and trans-antagonism.
In addition to over 50 journal publications and book chapters, D-L is an author or editor of three books, most recently, Black Collegians’ Experiences in U.S. Northern Private Colleges: A Narrative History, 1945-1965 (Palgrave, 2017) and is co-editor with Elisa Abes and Susan R. Jones of a forthcoming text, Rethinking College Student Development Theory Using Critical Frameworks.
Current Work:
Dr. Stewart is currently working on two pieces related to diversity and equity issues in US postsecondary institutions. The first is focused on the implications of categorizing diversity in higher education policy and practice. The second is co-authored regarding the implications of the experiences of people of color who are also members of non-Christian faith communities. Upcoming projects include a study of the pathways of secondary level queer and trans students into or out of postsecondary educational attainment.
Research Area Keyword(s):
History and philosophy, diversity, equity, justice, minoritized student experiences and outcomes
