Carrie N. Baker

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Carrie N. Baker
EducationEmory University School of Law
Alma materYale 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. [1]

Contents

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.

Education

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 [1] and, from 1994 to 1996, she served as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Marvin Herman Shoob in Atlanta, Georgia. [1]

Teaching

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.

Awards

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, [14] and the 2020 Sherrerd Teaching Award at Smith College. [15]

Scholarly Articles

Published Scholarly Articles
YearJournalTitle
2020 ADVANCE Journal | National Science Foundation Amplification of Structural Inequalities: Research Sabbaticals During COVID-19 [16]
2020 Feminist Formations | Johns Hopkins University Press Amplifying Our Voices: Feminist Scholars Writing for the Public [17]
2018 Feminist Formations | Johns Hopkins University Press Teaching to Empower [18]
2018 Politics & Gender | Cambridge University Press Racialized Rescue Narratives in Public Discourses on Youth Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States [19]
2017 Violence Against Women | SAGE Journals Challenging Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement’s Decline [20]
2016 Journal of Women, Politics & Policy | Taylor & Francis Online Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion and Teen Dating Violence Research [21]
2015 Journal of Human Trafficking An Examination of Some Central Debates on Sex Trafficking in Research and Public Policy in the United States [22]
2014 Meridians | Duke University Press An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films [23]
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 [24]
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 [25]
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 [26]
2005 NWSA Journal | Johns Hopkins University Press "An Orchid in the Arctic": Women's Studies in the Rural South [27]
2004 Feminist Studies Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s [28]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice | www.fivecolleges.edu". www.fivecolleges.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  3. ↑ "The Women's Movement against Sexual Harassment | American government, politics and policy". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  4. ↑ "Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade | Political sociology". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  5. ↑ Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Practice, Second Edition (9781531009366). Authors: Jennifer Ann Drobac, Carrie N. Baker, Rigel C. Oliveri. Carolina Academic Press.
  6. ↑ Baker, Carrie; Dove-Viebahn, Aviva (2023). Public Feminisms. doi:10.3998/mpub.12682117. ISBN   978-1-64315-043-7.
  7. ↑ "Carrie N. Baker Byline". Daily Hampshire Gazette. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  8. ↑ "Carrie N. Baker, Author at Ms. Magazine". msmagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  9. ↑ "Ms. Committee of Scholars - Ms. Magazine". msmagazine.com. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  10. ↑ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar - Current Issue". archives.news.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  11. ↑ "Class Notes From The Alumni Board President". Emory University School of Law. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  12. ↑ "Whaley Prize Recipients". National Women's Studies Association. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  13. ↑ News-Tribun, Special to Rome (5 May 2006). "Berry College faculty members Carrie Baker, Zeynep Tenger honored for excellence and achievement | Breaking New". Northwest Georgia News. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  14. ↑ Smith College Rally Day 2018 , retrieved 2021-03-11
  15. ↑ Solow, Barbara. "Smith Will Celebrate Teaching Award Winners". Smith College. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  16. ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (2020-12-04). "Amplification of Structural Inequalities: Research Sabbaticals During COVID-19". ADVANCE Journal. 2 (2): 18062. doi: 10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.2.2.3 .
  17. ↑ Baker, Carrie N.; Dove-Viebahn, Aviva; Berger, Michele Tracy; Rios, Carmen; Jolna, Karon (2020-09-19). "Amplifying Our Voices: Feminist Scholars Writing for the Public". Feminist Formations. 32 (2): 29–51. doi:10.1353/ff.2020.0024. ISSN   2151-7371. S2CID   229675083.
  18. ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (2018-10-16). "Teaching to Empower". Feminist Formations. 30 (3): 4–15. doi:10.1353/ff.2018.0033. ISSN   2151-7371. S2CID   149563009.
  19. ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (2018). "Racialized Rescue Narratives in Public Discourses on Youth Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States". Politics & Gender. 15 (4): 773–800. doi:10.1017/S1743923X18000661. ISSN   1743-923X. S2CID   149603001.
  20. ↑ Baker, Carrie N.; Bevacqua, Maria (2018-03-01). "Challenging Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement's Decline". Violence Against Women. 24 (3): 350–376. doi:10.1177/1077801216689164. ISSN   1077-8012. PMID   29332523. S2CID   4963435.
  21. ↑ Baker, Carrie; Stein, Nan (2016-01-02). "Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion and Teen Dating Violence Research". Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 37 (1): 87–109. doi:10.1080/1554477X.2016.1116301. ISSN   1554-477X. S2CID   147423747.
  22. ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (2015-07-03). "An Examination of Some Central Debates on Sex Trafficking in Research and Public Policy in the United States". Journal of Human Trafficking. 1 (3): 191–208. doi:10.1080/23322705.2015.1023672. ISSN   2332-2705. S2CID   153158770.
  23. ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (2014). "An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films". Meridians. 12 (1): 208–226. doi:10.2979/meridians.12.1.208. ISSN   1536-6936. JSTOR   10.2979/meridians.12.1.208. S2CID   144044403.
  24. ↑ Baker, Carrie (2013-01-01). "Moving Beyond "Slaves, Sinners, and Saviors": An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of US Sex-Trafficking Discourses, Law and Policy". Journal of Feminist Scholarship. 4 (4): 1–23. ISSN   2158-6179.
  25. ↑ Bevacqua, Maria; Baker, Carrie (2004-11-15). "Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain!". Women & Politics. 26 (3–4): 57–83. doi:10.1300/J014v26n03_03. ISSN   0195-7732. S2CID   144310724.
  26. ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (2007-10-01). "The Emergence of Organized Feminist Resistance to Sexual Harassment in the United States in the 1970s". Journal of Women's History. 19 (3): 161–184. doi:10.1353/jowh.2007.0051. ISSN   1527-2036. S2CID   144125346.
  27. ↑ Baker, Carrie N.; Madden, Jaime (2005). ""An Orchid in the Arctic": Women's Studies in the Rural South". NWSA Journal. 17 (2): 192–198. ISSN   1040-0656. JSTOR   4317139.
  28. ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (2004). "Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s". Feminist Studies. 30 (1): 7–27. ISSN   0046-3663. JSTOR   3178552.
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