Credentialed Course Instructor
Heritage Hall 360K
(205) 934-9986
Research and Teaching Interests: Modern U.S. History; environmental history; the history of race, class, gender, and sexuality; 19th and 20th Century social and political movements

Education:
- B.A., University of Alabama at Birmingham
- M.A., University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Ph.D., University of Houston
Dr. Bauer studies the social, political, environmental, and urban/suburban history of modern America. She has taught survey courses on U.S. history, western civilization, and world history. She has also taught a range of undergraduate courses including:
- U.S. History Since 1945
- American Environmental History
- History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
- American Urban and Suburban History
- Race and Disease in American History
- LGBTQ History
- The Long History of Women’s Liberation
- The Fifties in America
- Women, Sex and Violence in American History
- The Help: America’s Servant Class (with Pam King).