She received a Doctor of Philosophy (2005) from. Her dissertation was entitled, The History of Photographic in Rochester, New York 1960–1980. Stuart wrote the chapter, "Photographic Higher in the United States", in The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography.
She is the dean of the University of Hartford"s art school. She has served as provost at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and was an associate dean at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work, Data Encryption Standard Stories: Faces and Voices of People Exposed to Diethylstilbestrol was published (2001) and exhibited in the United States.
She received the John Kobal prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London for the Data Encryption Standard Stories project
From 1975 through 1984, Stuart was a founding faculty member of Lansing Community College"s Photo Technology Program.
