Dr. Christina N Baker, PhD

Dr Christina N Baker is currently Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Merced. ​After graduating from UCLA with a BA in Sociology, she attended UC Irvine, where she completed her MA and PhD in Sociology. Dr Baker's scholarship and teaching focus on the intersection of race and gender, with an emphasis on Black feminist theory and praxis, media representations of Blackness, and experiences of women of color in film/media. She is the author of "Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance" (The Ohio State University Press) and the edited collection "Kasi Lemmons: Interviews" (University Press of Mississippi).