James B. Stewart (economist)
James B. Stewart (1947) is an American economist who is Professor Emeritus of Labor and Employment Relations, African and African American Studies, and Management and Organization at Pennsylvania State University. In 2021, he was awarded the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award, the highest award of the National Economic Association. Education and early life. Stewart grew up in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. He studied math at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, where he was one of only 5 Black students in a student body of 1,000, and later earned a PhD in Economics from the  University of Notre Dame. Career. Stewart taught at Penn State from 1980 - 2009, while writing or co-authoring 11 books and 65 articles in Economics and Black Studies. He is a past president of the National Economic Association, the National Council for Black Studies, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He is a former editor of The Review of Black Political Economy.