Abigail J. Stewart
Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Abigail J. Stewart is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, director of the UM ADVANCE Program, and Associate Dean of the Graduate School. 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. She has published many scholarly articles and several books on the psychology of women’s lives, personality, and adaptation to personal and social changes. Her primary interests in political psychology focus on (1) the psychological meaning of social-historical events, including the consequences of young adult activism and personal political salience for political participation throughout adulthood; (2) generational differences in the significance of the 1970s women’s movement and the US civil rights movement, as well as broader values and political ideas; and (3) individual differences in identification with social movements and social groups, social structural analysis, and resistance to normative attitudes, especially heteronormativity.
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