Nicholas Baham
Dr. Nicholas Louis Baham III, Ph.D. is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay and Oakland, California’s newest writer of noir crime fiction. Dr. Baham is an internationally recognized scholar of and has appeared in such wide-ranging publications and media outlets as Esquire magazine; BBC documentary films; Austrian Public Radio; Canadian SexTV; and BET. His academic books include The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice (McFarland); co-writer for The Podcaster’s Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism (Wiley); and co-writer and co-editor for the forthcoming Love, Knowledge, Revolution: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Reader (Routledge). His first mystery novel, The People’s Detective: A Sonny Trueheart Mystery, is a fictional account of missing and trafficked young women of color in the Bay Area. Forthcoming titles in the series will deal with topics ranging from the crisis of the unhoused to the pushback against police reform in the post-George Floyd era. Sanctuary, the second installment in the series, will debut late 2025 and will deal with homelessness, urban gentrification, corporate greed, and municipal government corruption.
