Dr. Amy Bach is Associate Professor of Literacy/Biliteracy education in the division of Bilingual Education, Literacy/Biliteracy, and Sociocultural Foundations in the College of Education. Dr. Bach employs anthropological methods to study literacy, the sociocultural contexts in which it is practiced, and the meanings individuals and communities ascribe onto their engagements with different kinds of texts.

• New Grant Award for Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (06/26/2019)
• Provost’s Community Engaged Scholarship Institute Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Community Engaged Scholarship - UTEP Provost/ UTEP Center for Civic Engagement (01/01/2017-12/31/2017)
• Invited member of the Inaugural Provost's Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship - UTEP Provost/ UTEP Center for Civic Engagement (09/28/2016)
• New Grant Award for Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (10/08/2015)
• Invitation to nominate fellows for the 5th cohort of the Greater Texas Foundation Fellowship - Greater Texas Foundation (09/01/2015-09/30/2015)
• Greater Texas Foundation Faculty Fellow - Greater Texas Foundation (09/01/2015)
• Letter of Congratulations on my Greater Texas Foundation grant from State Representative Marisa Marquez (district 77) from Texas House of Representatives (07/15/2015)
• Invitation to become Affiliated Faculty of the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies - Center for Inter-American and Border Studies (04/09/2015)
• UTEP nominee for the Greater Texas Foundation Fellowship (10/10/2014)
• Information Literacy Course Enhancement Grant recipient - UTEP library (07/14/2014)
• University of Pennsylvania Urban Doctoral Symposium Honoree - University of Pennsylvania (05/20/2010)
• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly-­‐‑Provost Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation - University of Pennsylvania (05/15/2006)
• Philadelphia Film Festival Documentary Entry - Philadelphia Film Festival (09/15/2005)
• Teachers College, Columbia University Departmental Merit Scholar - Teachers College, Columbia University (09/01/1996)

• EDD in Literacy Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education (2010)
• MA in TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (1998)
• BA in Spanish with Honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994)

• Other - "Picturing" School Closures Photo Exhibition (06/22/2019). Exhibition of photographic work produced by students from Beall Elementary School in the after school arts-based literacy course I designed and taught. Familias Unidas and Mujer Obrera. El Paso, TX. Amy Bach.

• Neoliberal logics: An analysis of Texas’ STAAR exam writing prompts Journal of Literacy Research (2022), Brad Jacobson, Amy J. Bach.
• Neoliberal logics: An analysis of Texas’ STAAR exam writing prompts Journal of Literacy Research 54 1 (2022), Brad Jacobson, Amy J. Bach.
• Transfronterizx students and the figured worlds of Texas state writing exams Brill (2022), Amy J. Bach, Brad Jacobson.
• Education in Citizenship on the U.S./Mexico Border: The Language and Literacy Instruction of Emergent Bilingual Transfronterizx Students Anthropology & Education Quarterly (2020), Amy J. Bach.
• High-stakes, standardized testing and emergent bilingual students in Texas: An overview of study findings and a call for action Texas Journal of Literacy Education 8 1 (2020), Amy J. Bach.
• Vulnerable youth in volatile times: Ethical concerns of doing visual work with transfronterizx youth on the U.S./Mexico border Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 42 3 (2020), Amy J. Bach.
• Boost border security by $8B to cut drug crime in the U.S. and Latin America Dallas Morning News (2019), Josiah M. Heyman, Mark W. Lusk, Amy J. Bach.
• "This is about racism and greed": Photographs of public school closures by the Philadelphia School Closing Photo Collective Cultural Anthropology (2019), Amy J. Bach, Julia A. McWilliams, Elaine Simon.

• Black Geographies Meet the Market: Closed school vacancy across Philadelphia (2022), Volume Washington, D.C., Amy J. Bach.
• Education in Citizenship Through High-Stakes Literacy Assessments (2020), Volume Albuquerque, NM, Amy J. Bach.
• Photographing the Philadelphia Public School Closures (2019), Volume Toronto, Canada, Amy J. Bach, Julia A. McWilliams, Elaine Simon.

• Graduate course redevelopment to incorporate team-based learning through new digital platforms
• The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) and UTEP’s Center for Faculty Leadership and Development Professional Development Grant
• Examining the Aftermath of Mass Public School Closures through Visual and Ethnographic Methods