Dianne Marie Stewart is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University.
Stewart's work focuses on religion, culture and African heritage in the Caribbean and the Americas as well as womanist religious thought and praxis.
[2] In 2001, she joined Emory's faculty, and is currently Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American studies.
[1] Stewart received the Emory College of Arts and Sciences' Distinguished Advising Award, the Emory University Laney Graduate School's Eleanor Main Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, and a Senior Fellowship at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
The focus of her research is African religions and the practices and religious thought of African-descended people in the regions of Anglophone Caribbean and the United States.