Faculty Fellows Bios
Meet the 2022-23 Faculty Fellows
Nicholas Baham
The Center is pleased to have Dr. Baham serving as a Faculty Fellow this year. He will be working one-on-on with selected faculty to design or reimagine course assignments and related pedagogy that intentionally uses a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) lens.
Nicholas L. Baham III, Ph.D. is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies. He teaches Black Studies and Gender & Sexualities in Communities of Color, a program he co-founded to address the needs and interests of California State University East Bay's queer of color students. His signature courses include Black Sexualities, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Jazz Cultures and Communities, Afrofuturism, and Racialized Masculinities. His publications include The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice; The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism; and the forthcoming Love, Knowledge, Revolution: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Reader. He has also published numerous journal articles in Jazz Studies including "I Know You Know: Esperanza Spalding's Hybrid, Intertextual, Multilingual, Relevant Jazz Aesthetic." Dr. Baham has previously served California State University East Bay as the Diversity & Equity Liaison Officer, California Faculty Association Chapter President, and Academic Senate Vice Chair. In 2022 he was recognized as the George and Miriam Phillips Outstanding Professor and in 2021 he received the Sue Schaefer Faculty Service Award.
Linda Ivey
The Center is pleased to have Dr. Ivey serving as as Faculty Fellow this year. She will be assisting with dossier consultations for those submitting materials via the new Interfolio platform.
Linda Ivey is a Professor of History at CSU East Bay. She has a PhD. in environmental history from Georgetown University, and she specializes in ethnicity, immigration and environmental U.S. history, with an emphasis on California. She is the co-author of Documents of the Japanese Internment: Eyewitness to History (ABC-Clio, 2020) and Citizen Internees: A Second Look at Race and Citizenship in Japanese American Internment Camps (Praeger, 2017), both with Kevin Kaatz. She has also authored “Ethnicity in the Land: Lost Stories in California Agriculture” in Agricultural History (2007); “Apples and Experts: Evolving Notions of Sustainable Agriculture” in Global Environment(2014); “Protecting the People’s Mountain: Hiking and the Roots of Environmentalism in Marin County” in Sports in the Bay Area: Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation and Community (University of Arkansas Press, 2017); and “Riotous Environments: Filipino Immigrants in the Fields of California” in An Environmental History of Modern Migrations (Routledge Press, 2017). Professor Ivey currently serves as the coordinator of the MA program in History.