Carrie N. Baker lives, works and writes from Western Massachusetts and is available for interviews and lectures.

Dr. Baker is the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and sexuality at Smith College. She is an expert on women's rights law and policy, specializing in sexual harassment, sex trafficking, and reproductive rights and justice.

Dr. Baker has a BA (’87) in philosophy from Yale University, a JD (’94) from Emory University School of Law, and an MA (’94) and a Ph.D. (’01) from Emory University’s Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Dr. Baker is a co-founder and former co-director of the Five College Certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice. She is affiliated with the American Studies Program and the archives, and previously served on the advisory committees for the journalism concentrations and the public policy minor.

She has published five books: The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Practice, edited with Jennifer Drobac and Rigel C. Oliveri (Carolina Academic Press, 2020), Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community, edited with Aviva Dove-Viebahn (Lever Press, 2022) and Abortion Pills: US History and Politics (Amherst College Press, 2024). Her first book won the National Women's Studies Association 2008 Sara A. Whaley book prize.

In addition, she is a contributing editor at Ms. magazine, has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) and has a monthly radio show, Feminist Futures, on WHMP 101.5 FM Northampton. Baker is part of the Scholars Strategy Network, Women’s Media Center SheSource, and is the co-chair of the Ms. Committee of Scholars, which trains scholars to write for the popular media. She has served on the board member of Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts, is former President of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts and is a co-founder of the Abortion Truth Campaign, which works for transparency and accountability of anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers.”

Hear from Carrie about her work and life here.