Carrie N. Baker | |
Education: | Emory University School of Law |
Alma Mater: | Yale University |
Carrie N. Baker is an American lawyer, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, and Chair of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She teaches courses on gender, law, public policy, and feminist activism and is affiliated with the American Studies program, the archives concentration, and the public policy minor.[1] She co-founded and is a former co-director of the certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Program[2] offered by the Five College Consortium.
Baker has published four books: The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2007),[3] Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2018),[4] and Sexual Harassment Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2020)[5] and Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community, edited with Aviva Dove-Viebahn. Lever Press, 2023.[6]
Baker has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette.[7] She also writes for Ms. Magazine[8] and co-chair of the Ms. Committee of Scholars,[9] which connects academic scholarship to feminist public writing. She is a former president and is now on the advisory board of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts. She is a board member of Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.
Baker received a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1987,[10] a J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1994,[11] and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Institute of Women's Studies at Emory University in 1994 and 2001 respectively. While in law school, she was editor-in-chief of the Emory Law Journal and, from 1994 to 1996, she served as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Marvin Herman Shoob in Atlanta, Georgia.
Before teaching at Smith College, Baker taught at the Berry College in the department of Sociology and Anthropology. She also chaired the Women's Studies Program.
Her first book, The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment, won the 2008 National Women's Studies Association Sara A. Whaley book prize.[12]
For her teaching, Baker was awarded the 2006 Dave and Lu Garrett Award for Meritorious Teaching at Berry College,[13] the 2018 Student Government Association Annual Teaching Award at Smith College, and the 2020 Sherrerd Teaching Award at Smith College.[14]
2020 | ADVANCE Journal | National Science Foundation|Amplification of Structural Inequalities: Research Sabbaticals During COVID-19[15] |-|2020|Feminist Formations | Johns Hopkins University Press|Amplifying Our Voices: Feminist Scholars Writing for the Public[16] |-|2018|Feminist Formations | Johns Hopkins University Press|Teaching to Empower[17] |-|2018|Politics & Gender | Cambridge University Press|Racialized Rescue Narratives in Public Discourses on Youth Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States[18] |-|2017|Violence Against Women | SAGE Journals | Challenging Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement’s Decline[19] | |
2016 | Journal of Women, Politics & Policy | Taylor & Francis Online|Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion and Teen Dating Violence Research[20] |-|2015|Journal of Human Trafficking|An Examination of Some Central Debates on Sex Trafficking in Research and Public Policy in the United States[21] |-|2014|Meridians | Duke University Press|An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films[22] |-|2013|Journal of Feminist Scholarship | University of Rhode Island | Moving Beyond “Slaves, Sinners, and Saviors”: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of US SexTrafficking Discourses, Law and Policy[23] | |
2008 | Journal of Women, Politics & Policy | Taylor & Francis Online|Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain! Power, Privacy, and the Legal Regulation of Violence Against Women[24] |-|2007|Journal of Women's History | Johns Hopkins University Press|The Emergence of Organized Feminist Resistance to Sexual Harassment in the United States in the 1970s[25] |-|2005|NWSA Journal | Johns Hopkins University Press | "An Orchid in the Arctic": Women's Studies in the Rural South[26] | |
2004 | Feminist Studies | Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s[27] |