Historian, Equity Practitioner, & Educator
Helping outsiders make history.
Awaken the potential of your community.
I work at the intersection of education, administration, and social justice to empower students, faculty, and staff to build a brighter future.
Cultivate an inclusive climate rooted in ethics, care, and justice.
Get my award-winning book, Reproductive Citizens.
Analyzing inclusive social legislation, an expansive welfare apparatus, familialist employer policies, and populationist state and social practices in Third Republican France, Reproductive Citizens reveals how traditional outsiders to the nation-state – including women, immigrants, and colonial subjects – secure the social rights of citizenship and belonging within the national community.
Work with me.
Workshops + Trainings
Navigating the complexities of identity within the world of secondary and higher education is challenging. These skill-building workshops equip you with the necessary tools to explore the impact of identity, privilege, and power in the classroom, in the workplace, and beyond.
Private Consulting
Whether you’re an education non-profit, a high school, or a university, I’ll work with you to design strategies and develop solutions that will help you better serve the needs of marginalized students, staff, and faculty.
Lectures + Keynotes
As a trained professional historian and experienced diversity practitioner, I deliver lectures on everything from inclusive pedagogy, college access and success programs, and the state of American higher education to gender, sexuality, and migration in our contemporary world.
“Dr. Barton is a masterful speaker who challenges her audience to confront issues about diversity, identity, and perceptions.”
—Dr. Theresa Capra, Professor of Education, Mercer County Community College
On my bookshelf
Well, I started March with Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow…and I’m embarrassed to admit that I’m still reading it in April! In fairness, it’s a long book. Maybe I should wait for the TV show to come out…?