Bailey B. Smolarek

Ph.D.

Bailey B. Smolarek (she/her) holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. She is a researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and a teaching faculty member in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She uses critical, decolonial, and feminist theories to explore the experiences of historically marginalized and/or excluded populations.

Before earning her Ph.D., Bailey taught secondary and postsecondary Spanish and English as a Second Language courses in the U.S. and abroad.