Kendra Stewart

Professor of Political Science and Director of The Joseph P. Riley Jr. Center for Livable Communities

Education

Ph.D. and M.P.A. - University of South Carolina

B.A. - University of Central Florida

Research Interests

Government public relations, non-profit management, state and local government, food policy, and women and politics.

Selected Publications

Trochman, M., K. Stewart, and J. Ragusa.  The Impact of Employee Perceptions of Inclusion in a Racially Diverse Agency: Lessons from a State Government Survey. Public Personnel Management.

Prochaska, A. L., A. Watson, T. Callahan, K. Stewart Lowcountry Landowners’ Wetlands Knowledge and Perceptions and the Impacts of Land Management Actions on Isolated Wetlands Journal of SC Water Resources. Vol. 8, No 2: 2022 

Stewart, K. and T. Martin.  “The Kentucky Executive Branch” in Government, Politics and Policy in the Bluegrass State, Second Edition. Edited by J. Clinger and M. Hail at press at The University of Kentucky Press Forthcoming. 

Stewart, KB. Perspectives: Solving Wicked Problems Requires Regional Thinking. State and Local Government Review. Vol. 53. No. 3. September 2021: 183-186.

Lee, M., G. Neeley, and K. Stewart editors. The Practice of Government Public Relations, Second Edition. Taylor and Francis Press. 2021.

Dehaan, LC, KB Stewart, D. Bloom.  How Prisoner Reentry Programs Influence Reentering Citizens’ Trust in Government.  Journal of Political Science. Vol. 48 2019: 3-19.

Stewart, KB.  Innovations in Citizen Engagement in Local Governments. In Exploring Local Governance in China and the United States edited by Guoli Liu.  Southwest Jiaotong University Press, 2016.

Holland JH, Thompson OM, Godwin HH, Pavlovich NM, and Stewart KB. Farm-to-School Programming in South Carolina: An Economic Impact Projection Analysis. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition July 2015.

Thompson, O., M. P. Twomey, M. Hemphill, K. Keene, N. Siebert, D. Harrison, and K. Stewart. “Farm to School Program Participation: An Emerging Market for Small or Limited-Resource Farmers?”  The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition.  Vol. 9, No. 1, 2014. 

Honors and Awards

National Academy of Public Administration Fellow

American Society for Public Administration elected President 2020-2021

American Society for Public Administration Donald C. Stone Service to ASPA Award March 2016

Donato J. Pugliese Award for Dedication and Contribution to the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration, October 2012

College of Charleston EXCEL Graduate Faculty of the Year 2010