Associate Professor of History
- Office: 304K
- Phone: 724-357-2284
- Email: cbaker@iup.edu
Spring Office Hours
- Monday: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
- Thursday: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
- Friday: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Education
- PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Academic Interest
- Middle East
Profile
Professor Baker's book, Medieval Islamic Sectarianism (Bradford, UK: Arc Medieval Press, 2019), focuses on discourses on "heterodoxy" and "orthodoxy" in medieval Islam, examining the formation of different forms of Muslim identity in 10th-century North Africa, Iraq, and Iran and how the development of those identities were portrayed and remembered in historical narrative.
Her current research focuses on two projects. First, editing a volume on diversity in the medieval Islamic world. Second, she is researching Muslims living in non-urban communities in the United States and collecting oral histories with Erin Conlin (Ä¢¹½tv History Department) and Michelle Sandhoff (Ä¢¹½tv Sociology Department).
Baker offers courses on the medieval and modern Middle East, the Islamic world, and the Mediterranean as well as Queer History.
Spring 2021 Courses
- HIST 198-Explorations in Global History
- HIST 207-History of the Middle East
- HIST 331-History of the Modern Middle East