Expanding her research into other conflicts, in 2012, Baer analyzed the Rwandan genocide and organized a class and lecture series about the Dakota War of 1862. She was awarded the Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award for this work in 2013. Two years later, she was appointed as research professor of English and African Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, and subsequently also became a researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
