Eric Baack has been a professor in the Biology department since 2007, focusing on the topics of plant ecology and evolution. Some of his course topics include Evolutionary Biology, Ecology of the Southwest, and Principles of Biology: Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity.

This January Term, Professor Baack was the co-instructor for a Paidea II course, English Theatre: Mirror of Society and the Human Condition, during which students travel abroad to visit London and other historic cities to study how English theatre both mirrors and seeks to influence social values by dramatizing ethical conflict.

Past research projects have covered topics ranging from The viability, growth, and fertility of knapweed cytotypes in North America to Reconciling extremely strong barriers with high levels of gene exchange in annual sunflowers.