Judith Baer, Council 2003-05 Texas A&M University

Judith A. Baer, Texas A&M University
Council 2003-05

Judith A. Baer is professor of political science at Texas A&M University. Before coming to A&M in 1988, she taught at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and the State University of New York at Albany. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1974.

Baer specializes in public law and feminist jurisprudence. Her scholarship is guided by the principle that passionate commitment is compatible with dispassionate inquiry. Her books and articles include Our Lives before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence (Princeton, 1999), which received the Victoria Schuck Award from the APSA and honorable mention for the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the Organized Section in Law and Courts. She held a Fulbright lectureship at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1997-1998 and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 1995--1996. She is committed to writing for scholarly, student, and general audiences. The third edition of her undergraduate textbook, Women in American Law, was published in 2002.

Baer has been active in the political science profession. Most recently, she was president of the Women's Caucus for Political Science in 2002--2003. She served on the Council of the Southwestern Political Science Association, 1993--1995, as secretary-treasurer of the Organized Section on Law and Courts, 1993--1996, and as chair of the Edward S. Corwin Award Committee in 1997. She has been a member of the program committees of the American, Western, and Midwest Political Science Associations. She has served on the editorial board of Women and Politics for several years.

Baer is committed to pluralism and diversity in political science. She is eager to participate in discourse on proposed changes in APSA's election structure.