Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
Academic Credentials
Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
M.S., Criminal Justice
Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
B.A., Criminal Justice & Psychology
Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia
Short Bio
Dr. Brooke Baker is an Appalachian scholar and activist whose work focuses on state-corporate crime and violence, drugs, and juvenile justice. She is co-founder of Unified Outreach, a scholar-led organization, whose mission is to bring service projects with a focus on mutual aid to Academic Conferences. She uses student-centered learning practices in the classroom that prioritize student autonomy in the learning process. Her most recent research focused on the role of state-corporate violence in the concentration of substance misuse and overdose in the coalfields of West Virginia.
Teaching Areas
Deviance, Criminology, Juvenile Justice, Drugs and Society, Women and Crime, Crime & Inequality
Research Interests
Critical Criminology, Drugs and Society, Rural Criminology/Appalachian Studies, Juvenile Injustice, Trauma-Informed Criminology, State/Corporate Violence
Selected Publications (with links, if desired)
Baker, A., Kibler, M., & Goldblatt-Hyatt, E. (Online 2026). Black Widow & non-death loss: Bodily autonomy and forced sterilization. In J.A Harrington & D.L. Harris Superhero Grief and the Multiverse of Loss Consideration and Case Studies in Non-Death Loss. Routledge.
Baker, B. (2024) “Crisis in the Coalfields: The Role of Collective Trauma in the Concentration of Substance Misuse and Harm in Rural, Central Appalachia.” ProQuest.
Perrotti, A., Martinez, S., Chappell, A., Baker, B., & Sampath, J. (2024) Reimagining from Abroad: Speech-language pathologists as interprofessional partners supporting justice-involved youth in America. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology
Selected Presentations
Baker, B. (February, 2025). “Criminology: Careers, Research, & Scholar-Activism” Hebron University, Palestine
Baker, B. (November 2023) “Crisis in the Coalfields: Collective Trauma, Substance Misuse & Harm in Rural, Central Appalachia.” The American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Baker, B. (November 2023) “These Country Roads are More than Hillbillies and Rednecks: Challenging Rurality in the Media.” The American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
