Stacey M. Robertson | |
Alma Mater: | University of California, Santa Barbara |
Thesis Title: | Parker Pillsbury, antislavery apostle : gender and religion in nineteenth-century U.S. radicalism |
Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34448113 |
Thesis Year: | 1994 |
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.
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.
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.
Robertson began as president in Widener University on July 1, 2022, when she took over from Julie Wollman.[1]