Stacey Robertson

Stacey Robertson started as the 11th President of Widener University in 2022. She is a historian known for her work in women and the 19th-century antislavery movement.

Stacey Robertson
11th President of Widener University
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2022
Preceded by	Julie Wollman
Personal details
Born	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Education	Whittier College (BA) University of California, Santa Barbara (PhD)
Academic background
Thesis	Parker Pillsbury, antislavery apostle : gender and religion in nineteenth-century U.S. radicalism (1994)
Academic work
Institutions	Bradley University Central Washington University SUNY Geneseo

Early life and education

Robertson was born in Scottsdale, Arizona. She has a bachelor's degree in social history and social movements from Whittier College. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[1]

Career

Robertson accepted a position as an assistant professor at Bradley University and then remained there for twenty years, ultimately serving as an interim dean. She accepted a position as dean at Central Washington University, and then moved to become the provost at the State University of New York.^[1]

Robertson began as president in Widener University on July 1, 2022, when she took over from Julie Wollman.^[1]

Selected publications

• "Hearts Beating for Liberty | Stacey M. Robertson". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2024-04-01.^[2]

• Robertson, Stacey M. (2000). Parker Pillsbury: radical abolitionist, male feminist. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-3634-5.^[3]