Joan Hinde Stewart (born 1944) is an American academic administrator who served as the 19th president of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York from 2003 to 2016.
Before the University of South Carolina, Stewart taught French at North Carolina State University from 1973 to 1999 and served as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages from 1985 to 1997.
Since 2015, Stewart has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park.
Stewart has served as a member of the president's council of the University of the People.
[3] Stewart retired as president of Hamilton College in 2016, and was succeeded by legal scholar, David Wippman.