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.
Get my new book, A Just Future.
Getting from Diversity and Inclusion to Equity and Justice in Higher Education.
Cultivate an inclusive climate rooted in ethics, care, and justice.
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.
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.
“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
At the end of the year, I read Ruha Benjamin’s Imagination: A Manifesto and it is truly my favorite nonfiction book of the year!
I liked Kalyan Ray’s No Country family saga spread out over 5-ish generations and 3 continents, too. I also read Percival Everett’s Erasure, which I liked almost as much as his other novels, The Trees and James. I think it’s time to invest in this author.
As we enter a new year, I can’t wait to finally read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message. I’m also looking forward to dabbling in some fantasy, starting with Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. Happy reading!