Sheila Ellen Blumstein (born 1944) is professor emerita of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, where she was the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences.
Among other distinctions, she served as the interim president of Brown University from February 2000 until July 2001 after Gordon Gee departed and before Ruth Simmons took the position.
[3] Blumstein has published extensively on the neural basis of speech and language processing using both lesion-based and functional neuroimaging methods.
[4] Blumstein has served as member of a number of scientific review panels and boards for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the McDonnell Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience.
She has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship,[5] a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institutes of Health,[6] a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, and an Honorary Doctorate as well as the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, both from Brown University.