Dr. Stewart engages conceptual and empirical work on antiblackness in non-black communities of color. His work centers critical disruptive onto-epistemological frameworks and theories to destabilize dominant ways of knowing and being; including Black/endarkened feminist, womanist, and afropessimist perspectives.

Dr. Stewart has notable practitioner and administrative experience in higher education and student affairs. Before his full-time faculty work he served as the Assistant Director for Intercultural Programming and Strategic Initiatives of the Student Life Multicultural Center, Program Manager for the Office of the Vice President for Student Life which included management of the campus-wide No Place for Hate Initiative, Graduate Student Support, and support of the Bias Assessment and Response Team all at the Ohio State University (Go Bucks!). He also has extensive experience in University Housing at OSU and the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!) where he managed assessment and evaluation for the department.

Dr. Stewart’s scholarship has often been referred to as cutting-edge and groundbreaking work. He was named a 2023 Emerging Scholar by ACPA College Student Educators International. 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 two teaching excellence awards in 2022 from Iowa State University College of Human Sciences and the Commission for Faculty and Graduate Programs respectively.

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 the co-author of Identity-Based Student Activism: Power and Oppression on College Campuses (2020, Routledge); and Sex Work on Campus (2022, Routledge).