In 2009, Bakker became the first York University professor to earn a Trudeau Fellowship and was later elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
[3] In 2003, Bakker and Stephen Gill published a book titled "Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy" to argue that social reproduction should be the focus of global political economy, as opposed to power and production.
[4] On March 22, 2004, Bakker was named a Fulbright Program New Century Scholar for her work in feminist political economy.
[8] In 2009, Bakker became the first York professor to be awarded a Trudeau Fellowship for her work in feminist and critical political economy.
[12] During the 2017–18 academic year, Bakker was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara.