Kelly J. Baker

In October, LeanIn.org and McKinsey released their study, Women in the Workplace 2017, which relied on data f…

I've been worried about your approach to higher education since at least your confirmation hearings to become…

Weeks ago, I happened to check the visitor posts on my Facebook author page, which must be approved manually.…

"Well-behaved women seldom make history" is an often-quoted phrase written in an article by historian Laurel …

A couple of months ago, I decided I had had it with Twitter and Facebook. I was at a breaking point. There wa…

There's a book both of my kids love for me to read to them, The Monster Who Lost His Mean (2012). The Monster…

What I hope the book does, if it doesn’t do anything else, is let people know that it is OK to leave academia…

Quitting set me free. It can set you free, too.

I am not a longtime fan of Wonder Woman. I never read comics as a kid. I didn't have a Wonder Woman costume. …

I'm waiting to hear if I was accepted into an M.F.A. program. Former students, who I wrote recommendations fo…

The second Ku Klux Klan (1915-1930) began with a dream. William J. Simmons, an ex-Methodist minister, fratern…

Pitching a potential article to any publication involves a delicate balance. You must tell the editor what th…

The April cover of The Atlantic -emblazoned with "Why is Silicon Valley so awful to women?"-caught my eye whe…

When I was in graduate school, I was a part of the Tallahassee Equality Action Ministry (TEAM), an interfaith…

I started Rebecca Solnit's The Mother of All Questions (Haymarket Books, 2017) on International Women's Day, …

I have persisted, but I’ve grown weary of persistence. “Nevertheless, she persisted” is not the rallying cry …

In early February, I attended an organizing meeting for the local branch of the Women's March. They're creati…

I first knew something was up when I Googled Richard B. Spencer for an article I was writing on the "alt-righ…

I'm not happy. I haven't been really happy since November. The world proved to be a bit more terrible than I …

As a religious-studies scholar, I expected to see all-male panels when I attended scholarly conferences. Afte…

It's the beginning of a new year, a time when many folks reflect on their lives over the last year and resolv…

What the nation needs is a model (or models) of intersectional feminism that recognizes and comprehends that …

When Gospel According to the Klan was published in 2011, the reactions to the book surprised me at first. I h…

Yet, there’s still a hesitation about how religion is implicated in terror and hatred. For better or worse, t…