Dr. Bach is assistant 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.
• Other - "Picturing" Our Lives on the Border Photo Exhibition (05/06/2018). Exhibition of photographic work produced by high school students who participated in the after school arts-based literacy course I designed and taught. El Paso, TX. Amy Bach.

• 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.
• Poverty, literacy, and social transformation: An interdisciplinary exploration of the digital divide Journal of Media Literacy Education 10 1 (2018), Amy J. Bach, Todd Wolfson, Jessica Crowell.
• Using animated folktales to teach cultural values: A case study with Korean bilingual children Journal of Research in Childhood Education 32 3 (2018), So Jung Kim, Lea Lee, Song An, Amy J. Bach.
• Emancipatory broadband adoption: Towards a critical theory of digital inequality in the urban United States Communication, Culture, and Critique 10 3 (2017), Todd Wolfson, Jessica Crowell, Camille Reyes, Amy J. Bach.
• The Philadelphia School Closing Photo Collective: Photography as documentation, public participation, and community resistance Streetnotes 25 (2016), 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.
• In School on the Texas-Mexico Border: The Importance of Ethnographic Research for Understanding State Education Accountability Policies and the Schooling of Emergent Bilingual Students (2018), Volume Philadelphia, Amy J. Bach.
• The Philadelphia School Closing Photo Collective: Reflections on a community photography project turned photo essay (2017), Volume Washington, DC, Amy J. Bach.
• State education policies and the construction of citizenship: English learners in school on the U.S./Mexico border (2017), Volume Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Amy J. Bach.
• In School on the Texas/Mexico Border: Preliminary Findings From an Ethnographic Study Examining How High-Stakes, Standardized Testing Shapes Schooling for English Learners (2017), Volume San Antonio, TX, Amy J. Bach.

• Examining the Aftermath of Mass Public School Closures through Visual and Ethnographic Methods
• English Language Learners on the Texas-Mexico Border: An Ethnographic Study Examining State Education Accountability Policies