Anita Olson Gustafson (born March 3, 1961) is an American historian and academic administrator who is the 20th and current president of Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina.

She took office on August 1, 2023, and was most recently the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Gustafson was born Anita Ruth Olson on March 3, 1961;[1] she is a native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

[2] On March 25, 2016, Gustafson was named dean of the Mercer University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective August 1 of that year.

[3] Her manuscript, Swedish Chicago: The Shaping of an Immigrant Community, 1880–1920, was published by Northern Illinois University Press on December 14, 2018.