Dr. Judith A. Baer

Dr. Judith A. Baer, professor of political science at Texas A&M,  is a specialist in public law and feminist jurisprudence. Her book, Our Lives Before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence (Princeton University Press) won the American Political Science Association’s Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics published in 1999.She has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and a Fulbright Scholar in Istanbul, Turkey. Her most recent book is Ironic Freedom: Personal Choice, Public Policy, and the Paradox of Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.)

Dr. Baer was president of the Women’s Caucus for Political Science in 2002-2003. She was a member of the American Political Science Association Council from 2003 to 2005. Other professional activities include a term on the council of the Southwestern Political Science Association, a term as editor of the Women’s Caucus Political Science Quarterly, and service on the program committees of several national and regional associations. She has served on the editorial board of Women and Politics and is now series editor for the Greenwood Series in Reproductive Rights and Policy.

Before joining the Texas A&M University faculty in 1988,, Dr. Baer taught at the State University of New York at Albany and the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona