Directory

Courses Taught

• EDU 934 - Leadership and Problems of Practice in Organizations
• EDU 954 - Communication and Community Engagement
• EDU 991 - Qualitative Research

Research Interests

• Critical race theory in education
• Multicultural Education
• Antiracist education
• Critical pedagogy
• Social contexts for learning
• Theoretical foundations
• Culturally responsive teaching
• Social justice education

Selected Honors and Awards

• Early Career Award Nominee - International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, 2021-2022
• Community Engaged Scholar Award - Midwest Engaged Scholars Initiative, National Campus Compact Coalition, 2019-2020
• National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Delegation - Education Ambassador to Cuba, Summer 2018

Selected Publications

Baker, A., Morales, M., Lowenstein, S., Reiff, J. (2023). Working against racism through cross-institutional communities of practice.  In C. Santana, A. Garcia-Guevara, J. Krupczynski, C. Lynch, J. Reiff, R. Risam, C, Vincent, and E. Ward (Eds.) Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles & Practices. Stylus Publishing.

Baker, A. (2021) Sandra’s Story: A Generational Commitment to College and Career Readiness Through Homeschool Education.  In K. Ali-Coleman and C. Fields-Smith Homeschooling Black Children in the United States: An examination of homeschooling in practice, theory and popular culture, Information Age Publishing.

Marshall, P., Norris, K., and Baker, A. (2020). Toward People-to-People Understandings in Short-Term International Travel: Critical Race Reflections on Four Encounters in Cuba. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2020.1783014.

Baker, A. (2019). To Whose Benefit? At What Cost?  Consideration for Ethical Issues in Social Science Research.  In M. Baran and J. Jones (Eds.) Applied Social Science Approaches to Mixed Methods Research, pp. 251-261.  IGI Global.

Baker, A. (2018). A Review of The Room is On Fire: The History, Pedagogy, and Practice of Youth Spoken Word Poetry.  Teachers College Press.

Baker, A. (2017). Comfort Zone X: Establishing Safe Learning Environments for Open Discussion of Critical Issues.  Wisconsin English Journal, fall 2017.

Baker, A. (2017). Foreword. The narrative experiences of African Americans with disabilities: A call for critical reflection.  In S. A. Robinson (Ed.), Untold narratives: African Americans who received special education services and succeeded beyond expectations (pp. vii-ix). Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

Baker, A. and Weisling, N. F.  (2016). Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers like Me: A Review.  Wisconsin English Journal, 58(1), 60-62.

Bronson, C., Baker, A., Becker, P., Floyd, S., Suleiman, R., Weisling, N. (2016). A White Paper Addressing Faculty Perceptions of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as it pertains to the Rank and Tenure Process.  StritchTalks Scholarly Forum, Milwaukee, WI.