TJ Stewart

Terah J. Stewart, Ph.D. (he/him) is a graduate faculty member and associate professor of higher education and student affairs at Iowa State University. He is also a faculty affiliate with Women and Gender Studies His research and writing focus on people and populations who are hyper-marginalized and/or those who have stigmatized identities.

Dr. Stewart’s scholarship has often been called cutting-edge and groundbreaking work. He was named a 2023 Emerging Scholar by ACPA College Student Educators International and a 2024 Diverse Issues in Higher Education Emerging Scholar. He has received the Nevitt Sanford Award and the Burns B. Crookston Award, both for research endeavors from ACPA’s Commission for Faculty and Graduate Programs. In 2023 he was awarded Outstanding Book for his unparalleled text Sex Work on Campus by the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He has also been recognized for his demonstrated teaching as the recipient of three teaching excellence awards from Iowa State University College of Human Sciences, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching for his scholarship on teaching, and the Commission for Faculty and Graduate Programs of ACPA.

His research and writing have appeared in Action Research, the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and the Journal of College Student Development. Dr. Stewart is co-author of Identity-Based Student Activism: Power and Oppression on College Campuses (2020, Routledge) and author of Sex Work on Campus (2022, Routledge).