Bernadette Baker

Bernadette M. Baker is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. She holds affiliations with multiple interdisciplinary centers including East Asian Studies, South Asia Studies, and the Robert F. & Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. Her research bridges curriculum history, philosophy, and global studies, focusing on postfoundationalist and exonationalist methodologies to interrogate knowledge politics.

Her current projects address AI ethics, big data’s impact on selfhood, mindfulness in education, and mind-body dynamics in caregiving professions. She has received prestigious awards such as the Vilas Mid-Career Research Award and AERA’s Outstanding Book Award for her works on William James and anti-imperial discourse.

• Awards: Fulbright Fellowship, AERA Honors, Honorary Teaching Fellow
• Labs/Teams: Affiliated with 7 research centers including Disability Studies Initiative and Public Humanities

Her seminars integrate Western, Eastern, Indigenous, and Global South perspectives, challenging spatial power dynamics and classificatory regimes in curriculum theory.