Job Duties

Alicia Baca is the outreach coordinator of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. She leads CSEEES' K-14 outreach teacher training programs and activities, organizes CSEEES' Graduate Student Lectures, assists with the organization of other center events and conferences, and serves as the Program Coordinator for CSEEES' Polish Studies Initiative. She also creates and distributes the monthly job list and manages the center's weekly newsletter, email communications, and social media pages. If you have any questions about CSEEES' events or programming or would like to have something shared in our newsletter, please email her at baca.31@osu.edu. 

Professional Experience

Alicia received her B.A. in Russian Studies and Humanities, with a minor in Nordic Studies from the University of Colorado - Boulder in 2014 and later earned an M.A. in Russian Studies from the same institution in 2018. Prior to pursuing a graduate degree, she worked at CU Boulder's Anderson Language and Technology Center as a lead librarian and then later as the center's resources coordinator and student employee manager. During her time as a graduate student, she worked as a teaching assistant for CU Boulder's Nordic Studies Department where she co-taught and developed lesson plans for courses that focused on Norse mythology and the Nordic sources found in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. She was also the recipient of a Title VIII fellowship in 2017 which helped to fund her studies abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia. While she in not currently involved in scholarly research, she maintains a strong interest in ongoing LGBTQ+ and women's rights issues in Eastern Europe, music and politics, Nordic and Slavic traditional music and folklore, and the use of Nordic and Slavic folk metal music as a recruitment tool for extremist groups.

In 2023 she received the Mary Ann Williams Leadership Award from the Association of Faculty and Staff Women at Ohio State for her commitment to creating engaging and inclusive outreach programming and providing opportunities for others to grow through mentoring, advocacy, and support.